[RndTbl] network problem

[Kevin McGregor]

Yes, you only technically need one address, but my point was you may 
need the second one because the cable modem won't reassign the first one 
to the second device. I was suggesting a free workaround for the way the 
cable modem works, not because you 'need' a second address.

Anyway, at this point I doubt it's the NIC. DHCP and port connections 
are all handled by the host OS's TCP/IP stack, not the card.

Dan Martin wrote:
> Kevin McGregor wrote:
>> Well, no. By default, Shaw gives out one IP address per cable modem, 
>> so if you change the connected device from the original router you 
>> tried, to something else, it ignores the new device. Sometimes 
>> powering down the cable modem (and waiting... hours? Days?) helps, 
>> but the better solution is to call Shaw Internet tech support and 
>> tell them you want your free second IP address activated. 
> I only need one address.  I just need the NIC to get it.  I was trying 
> to bypass the firewall to see if that's where the problem was.
> I am guessing the firewall is NOT the problem:
> 1)  I can connect on another machine on the LAN that should be handled 
> the same way by the firewall.
> 2)  The second app used to work with the same firewall on the first 
> machine.
>
> Could a NIC 'partly' fail so that it can't accept an address by DHCP 
> and will fail with some connections but not others?
>> You may still have to power down and up the cable modem after they do 
>> this. Shaw provides all Internet users with two IP addresses, but the 
>> second one has to be activated on request.
>>
>> After that, you can try plugging in your computer or other device to 
>> the cable modem to do tests - although I'd be loathe to do that with 
>> a Windows 2000 machine.
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>> Dan Martin wrote:
>>> I have a home LAN that uses a iptables firewall running on FC 4 on 
>>> my gateway machine.  I run Win2K on an internal LAN machine that I 
>>> use to run (among other things) 2 applications that contact remote 
>>> servers.  Using SNAT in iptables, everything seemed to run fine, 
>>> since all communications with the servers were initiated on my end 
>>> and return packets were appropriately translated back.
>>> ...
>>>
>>> I plugged my Win2K machine directly to the cable modem and 
>>> configured it to connect by DHCP.  I could not get an address for 
>>> it.  Shaw believes the modem is working and trying to assign an 
>>> address.
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> It is suspicious that the NIC would not configure when plugged to 
>>> the cable modem - but everything else works.  I can browse the web 
>>> and get my mail.
>>>
>>> Is this consistent with a NIC failure?  could it be something else?
>>>
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