Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 09:42:59 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@sinbad.net> To: Chad Day <cday@permanently.misplaced.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with Cox cable modem on FreeBSD 4.5 Message-ID: <20020602174300.4603A1F@nova.anchoragerescue.org> In-Reply-To: <20020602125549.A16596@permanently.misplaced.net> References: <20020602125549.A16596@permanently.misplaced.net>
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On Sunday 02 June 2002 08:55 am, you wrote:
> Hello.. I have a COX cable modem (northern virginia), and I'm kind of stuck
> now. I've done a lot of reading of documentation about getting the cable
> modem to work, and some of it has helped.. but.. here's where I'm at now.
>
> I login, after resetting my cable modem (I have to do this every time I
> switch between FreeBSD and my Windows machine -- seperate boxes).. I run
> dhclient xl0 for my card, and it gets me the IP address, router info,
> gateway, etc -- all successfully. What happens next is the weird thing..
> sometimes I can get about 2-3 minutes of normal connectivity.. never more
> than that, and sometimes not at all. Then everything just dies. I can't
> ping anything, including gateways or DNS servers at cox.. just packet loss
> everywhere. Can't traceroute, can't ftp, nothing. I can kill dhclient and
> start it again, and it appears to work again (gets an IP addr), but I can't
> do anything still. I'm unsure why I am unable to maintain a connection.
>
> When I run ifconfig after running dhclient, it looks correct -- it has my
> ip address, and all the other appropriate things. Has anyone come across
> this problem before? It's pretty frustrating to have like 2 minutes of
> connectivity, then poof.. nothing.. I feel like I'm so close to getting it
> working, but I'm missing something.
>
> Thanks!
> Chad
You didn't say what version you were running but it sounds like a problem
with your NIC. I had a similar problem about a year ago with a 3Com card
until I disabled PNP in the bios. The NIC would just lock up and not pass
anything.
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