[TriLUG] has roadrunner changed something recently?

[William Sutton]

Well, having read through most of the thread, it looks nonconspiratorial, 
but I observed similar behavior last week with Comcast.  It took 
unplugging both my Linksys modem and Linksys router for a couple minutes, 
letting the modem power up and lock on, then powering up the router before 
it resolved.

Oddly, my ssh connections to various internet locations (outside the 
Comcast service area) remained after all that power cycling and so forth.

Unfortunately it looks like it was all a nefarious Comcast scheme to 
disable ping requests, as I can no longer ping anything beyond my cable 
modem :(

William

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Ryan Leathers wrote:

> wondering if anyone else has experienced this...
> 
> Last Friday evening in the middle of an on-line frag-fest I lost my
> connection to the server.
> A few minutes later I turned up the likely problem - my router, connected
> directly to a cable modem (Motorola SB4200), could not reach much of
> anything by IP address.  Traceroutes from the router (Cisco 2600) died 6
> hops away.  I assumed at that point that there was some outage in the SP
> network so I went and watched TV.
> 
> On Saturday the problem remained so I did some more exploration.  It seems
> that the real problem has to do with DHCP.
> When I connect my Linux or Windows hosts directly to the cable modem I get a
> lease offer which looks like this:
> 24.74.175.X /21 IP Addr
> 24.74.168.1 Gateway
> 10.42.32.1 DHCP Server
> 
> However, when I connect the router directly to the cable modem (using E0/0
> ip address dhcp) I get a lease like this:
> 10.42.44.233 /19 IP Addr
> 10.42.32.1 Gateway
> 24.25.4.112 DHCP Server
> 
> Note that with this lease I am able to reach a number of detinations on what
> appears to be TWC's private network, but obviously I'm not reaching the
> Internet.
> 
> So what's up with this?  Is my dhcp client in the router not handshaking
> correctly anymore?  
> Insights welcomed - insidious conspiratorial allegations discouraged.
> 
> Ryan  
> 
> 
>     
> 

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