More MediaOne woes

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

As you know I have had mediaone for over 4 years and it has been very 
stable. I had some minor problems with earlier SuSE DHCP, but SuSE 
6.4 DHCP has no bugs that I can perveive. 
The routes should be:
24.128.60.7,  24.128.60.8. 
DHCP will rewrite resolv.conf and also set up the default route, but that is 
partly a function of your dhcp client and its scripts. 

I did see David's response to you. First, there might be a problem with 
your cable modem. Make sure that your cable modem is fully synced up. 
If you have a blinking light, you lose sync. 

Also, make sure all of your coax cables and connectors are tight. 
Depending on who ran the coax, you could have some problems there. 
After I had my cable for a few months I put in a service call. The person 
who came out find several places where the original cable installer had 
made poor connections. He found problems in the connector on the pole, 
at the splitter and into the cable modem itself. I found another problem a 
while back where if the cable modem moved it would be intermittent. 
Again, I found that the connection had loosened. Got a wrench and 
tightened it, and that fixed the problem. 

I have a Lan City cable modem. I have heard that some other cable 
modems have problems, but I do not have any experience with other than 
the Lan City. 



On 20 Dec 2000, at 10:37, John Abreau wrote:

> I just got mediaone installed on Saturday, and it's been a major pain in
> the ass since then. The connection keeps dropping out entirely, and I have
> to reset my NIC before it comes back. Even that doesn't work consistently.
> Sometimes when the problem occurs, I notice that my default route has
> somehow gotten reset to the address assigned to my NIC; I imagine their
> DHCP server must be doing something wierd. So far the longest I've been
> online with this thing is about 20 minutes or so.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced problems like this? Any ideas what might
> cause this? How did you resolve the problems?
> 
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> John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix 
> ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj / Email jabr at blu.org
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Associate Director
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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