From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 2 9:55:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from permanently.misplaced.net (permanently.misplaced.net [209.45.245.152]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBA3437B404 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 2002 09:55:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from permanently.misplaced.net (cday@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by permanently.misplaced.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g52Gto3d016639 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 2002 12:55:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from cday@localhost) by permanently.misplaced.net (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g52Gtoxl016638 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 2 Jun 2002 12:55:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 12:55:50 -0400 From: Chad Day To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help with Cox cable modem on FreeBSD 4.5 Message-ID: <20020602125549.A16596@permanently.misplaced.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message