Re: Frustration (cablemodem woes)
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Jeff wrote:
> I can think of 2 things that may be at issue: 1) your cable
> modem could be losing it's registration on the cable loop, which
> means the cable head-end no longer see's it on the loop and stops
> forwarding traffic onto the loop for it until it recieves
> registration packets from it again. This would be a cable
> provider problem, but you cable guy say's the modem is
> fine...hmmm.
Which gives me an idea. If I know what username this is with, I can
give the configuration a repush when I get into work tomarrow, see if
that helps. Can also check for line noise then...
> Looks like you firewall is denying and logging packets it's
> recieving for the qotd protocol...qotd 17/tcp "Quote of the Day".
Protocol, not port. I'm told this is SMB. Do you have windows machines
on your network with file and printer sharing enabled? They're
advertising thier shares...
--
Baloo
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