VanLUG Email Archive
R Garth Wood (rgwood@itactics.itactics.com)
Tue, 20 Oct 1998 02:01:54 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Garry & Gretel Griffin wrote:
> >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.
> >
>
> 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.
He's right this is their attempt to cap the number of machines.
I had to reboot my lancity every week to week and a half. That's
somewhat buggy.
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