RE: My cable seems to block connection with m0n0wall

Nice information Klaus.

Thank you

-----Original Message-----
From: Klaus Stock [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 2:27 PM
To: Jopoy Solano
Cc: Gold Dragon; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] My cable seems to block connection with m0n0wall

> It could be that your provider allows only one MAC address at a time. 
> Just wait for a few hours after your mac gets released.
> Otherwise just spoof the mac of your original router. 

As the cable modem always sits between the cable coming out of the wall and
whatever is connected to the other end (PC or m0n0wall), it should make no
difference. As far as I understood, it works perfectly with a PC connected
to the modem, but not with the m0n0wall (which is basically a PC as well,
just not running Windows/Linux/MacOS but FreeBSD).

It could be a rare hardware issue, where the modem's NIC doesn't play well
with the m0n0wall's NIC. I've seen such an issue which could be remedied by
first turning on the m0n0wall and then turning on the modem. If the modem
was turned on with the router connected but turned off, it would hang until
power-cycled.

Many years ago one ISP also sold packages which allowed connection of one
single PC only. It was assumed that this might have been enforced by
checking the sequence number of packets. Which is probably a most ridiculous
idea nowadays, with boxes rewriting sequence numbers.

Best regards, Klaus