Trevor Cordes wrote:

For a few weeks I've been seeing strange behaviour with dhclient/dhcp and Shaw. Wondering if anyone else has seen this:

I've been having similar weird behaviour this week.

Once a week or so, usually on Sun or Mon, my FC5 box firewall/router will lose its connection to Shaw. ifconfing will show eth0 up with an IP address, but no traffic will come in or out. Normally, that's a "Shaw is down" symptom. But if I ifdown eth0; ifup eth0, then instantly everything is ok again. And my IP address stays the same.

I have an external home firewall and it was losing connections every couple of hours.

It's almost like dhclient isn't keeping Shaw's DHCP server happy and they're cutting me off until I say, "hey, I'm still here" with a ifup kick.

Sounds like what MTS used to be like. A friend wrote a BSD script to reconnect after each disconnect.

Any ideas?

When I phoned on Saturday the tech started by telling me the cable modem had a good connection. He checked intermittently through the call and it dropped the connection toward the end of the call. I mentioned in Windsor Park we get affected by construction in both Transcona and St. Vital. It seems there is a little work being done (possibly finished) in Niakwa Place or Niakwa Park. Both are fairly close. Sunday afternoon things improved.

Later Mike