[CLUE-Tech] AT&T Broadband

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

rrarabie at attbi.com wrote:

>>Have you tried unplugging the modem & rebooting?
>>
> 
> Are you joking?  Yes.  I did follow their instructions.


No, I was just curious -- at first I kept trying to just restart
networking -- it *shouldn't* be necessary to reboot to get networking
to work correctly under Linux. Obviously AT&T has some b0rken
setups...

 
> I figure if my Mac couldn't get online, it HAS to be their problem.  It would be really hard to misconfigure TCP/IP networking on a Mac.


Good point -- that's a good litmus test.

 
> When I finally got a person on the phone this morning they said they could not "see" my modem on the network.


Oh, that's not good. Good luck with it. I hope that it doesn't
take too much longer.

Zonker

 
> Cheers!
> 
> Randy
> 
>>I had the same kind of problem last night -- but this morning
>>everything seems to be (finally) working right.
>>
>>Last night I managed to pull an IP & DNS, but couldn't resolve
>>*anything* -- I could ping the AT&T DNS & even some other IPS,
>>but nothing else worked.
>>
>>This morning, all is well. I'm 99.9999% all the problems are
>>on their end.
>>
>>Oh -- I'm in 80231, if that means anything.
>>
>>Zonker
>>
>>
>>rrarabie at attbi.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I'm in the 80212 ZIP code.  Apparently there is a problem with AT&T's DHCP 
>>>
>>there.  I spent two hours trouble shooting with my three two Linux boxes, my 
>>OpenBSD box, and my Mac before I broke down and called support.  I could not get 
>>an IP assigned with any of those machines.  All were previously configured to 
>>work with DHCP on the @home network, and all were working fine.  My OpenBSD was 
>>the gateway so would get an IP assigned by @home and then it was assigning 
>>192.X.X.X numbers for the rest internally.
>>
>>>After 3 hours of frustrating hold time with AT&T this morning I can only say I 
>>>
>>have a trouble ticket number.  They could not reach my modem from their end.  
>>That contradicts what my modem says, as the two solid lights indicate that it is 
>>receiving signal from an upstream provider.
>>
>>>I've got a long detail rant I sent them via a feedback website they have.  I 
>>>
>>think I'll post it on usenet too, but won't do it here unless your interested.
>>
>>>Cheers!
>>>
>>>Randy
>>>
>>>
>>>>On 12-05 14:00, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Jeffery Cann wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Joe,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I feel your pain.  I already went through section 3 of the DHCP mini-HOWTO,
>>>>>>referenced by Brandon and I am still not able to connect as of this morning.  
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>I
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>am at work, so I cannot try some other ideas.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>Yes, the mini-HOWTO isn't much help. An actual config file that I can
>>>>>modify is what I'm looking for. Don't be stingy people, post those
>>>>>configs!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>Here's my pump.conf:
>>>>retries 3
>>>>device eth1 {
>>>> nodns
>>>>}
>>>>
>>>>eth1 is the "internal" interface on my firewall...eth0 is the external.
>>>>
>>>>All I did was run pump -i eth0. I am using RH 6.1.
>>>>
>>>>HTH,
>>>>
>>>>-- 
>>>>Sean LeBlanc:seanleblanc at home.com Yahoo:seanleblancathome 
>>>>ICQ:138565743 MSN:seanleblancathome AIM:sleblancathome 
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