On Wednesday 04 May 2005 11:45 am, Nick LeRoy wrote:
On Wed May 4 2005 10:33 am, Leen de Braal wrote:
Nick LeRoy zei:
Hello, Does anybody have any clues as to what could be going wrong here, and, hopefully, a solution? I really need to get this working soon because my old firewall box is dying rapidly, and I'm having a difficult time keeping it running.
Is your ISP checking the MAC_address (and you have a different one now?)
That's what I'd assumed at first, but.... I've been running 2 boxes connected to the hub at a time for quite a while -- a self contained Linux box and the firewall box, and both were getting valid IP address from DHCP. Now, with my old firewall (it's been dead for over 2 days now), the DHCP lease should that it held should have expired, shouldn't it have? I don't think that I've ever given Charter (the ISP) the MAC address of any of the machines that I've connected in the past. Perhaps I should contact them?
Nope.......probably don't need to. 'Sounds like it all needs to be reset. Shut down the 'puter. Then, kill the power to the HUB AND the cable modem. Leave them OFF for 5 mins. Then, turn on the modem, once up, turn on the HUB, then the 'puter. All should be well. Fred -- The only bug free software from MickySoft is still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..."