On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 01:23:21PM -0500, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote: > Ben, this message isn't only to you, i just chose to reply to your > message in particular. > > > > Yes well I can get a lease just fine on my b0rken at&t cable modem but > > can't route packets. I can't even ping the default route :-( A co-worker > > told me they need my serial number and MAC from my cable modem again. Seems > > they need to be reprovisioned. Assholes. > > I know it's a horrid throught, but have you considered calling AT&T? Have > _any_ of you called AT&T? For most of you (cable syncs, get an IP, no internet) > they'll have you go to a web page (everything _but_ that web page is > filtered), you'll enter your account number, then the last 9 digits of > your account number in the next box. Click SUBMIT, and presto chango, > the cable modem reboots and you're on the 'net. Yes, I've called AT&T and you know what? They will hang up on me if I tell them I'm using something other than windows. In this case I really doubt AT&T is to blame here, they just updated their software and it turns out the default dhcp clients we have don't support their new standard. Now if it's not a public standard, THEN they suck, otherwise they're just trying to keep up to date. > > As much as AT&T sucks, they are your ISP, you should try calling them > before bitching and whining to a mailing list. (And put some throught > into it, if you register your WINDOWS box with them, then unplug the > WINDOWS box and plug in the LINUX box, you didn't register your LINUX > box, so it's probably NOT going to work) Both OS's sit on the same box. Just unplug an IDE cable and Windows becomes OpenBSD(or Linux for that matter). -- Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39