VanLUG Email Archive
Garry & Gretel Griffin (ggriffin@island.net)
Mon, 19 Oct 1998 18:27:19 -0700
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>CD> -Problem(?): packets can leave my machine just fine, but nothing is
>CD> coming back (or can't come back) for some reason. Any suggestions?
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>CD> chris
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>CD> ---
>CD> Chris Dingwall
>CD> chrisd@dingwall.bc.ca
>CD> http://dingwall.bc.ca/nve/speed/
>CD> "This Motel 100% Tick Free Since 1989!"
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>This may be the same problem I had, and its a WEIRD one. I had an
>amiga, and a linux box, and if I wanted to switch between them, I had
>to unplug the modem, wait a few minutes, and then plug it in again.
>It was the only way it would work on my other machine. It really
>doesn't make much sense, tcp packets are tcp packets, but, something
>tells me the firmware in the lancity modems are buggy. You can bet
>that roger's bought the cheapest possible modems they can find, and
>they do crash from time to time, so give it a try. They symptoms are
>exactly the same as I had, packets can go out, but nothing returns.
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Actually, the Lancity Modems are not "buggy". They work this way on
purpose. You can connect more than one machine via a hub, if the modem has
been confirured to accept this ( modems can be configured to support from 1
to 16 MAC addresses) The cable modem reads the MAC address from the the NIC
attaching to it's ethernet port and will only authorize the first x
(number) of MAC addresses it see's depending on what x (number) it has been
programed to accept.
If you need any more info on LanCity Cable modems, please ask as I have all
the manuals, control software, firmware etc.
Garry Griffin
Garry & Gretel Griffin
825 Eland Drive, Campbell River, B.C., Canada, V9W 6Y9
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