Re: My cable seems to block connection with m0n0wall

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You may wish to try powering down the cable modem before changing the
device which is attached to it -- even when the MAC is the same.

In the past, I've encountered cable modems which required this.


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 6:26 AM, Gold Dragon Inc. <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
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