[CS-FSLUG] weird network problems

[Josiah Ritchie]

On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 10:53, Tim Young wrote:
> I see why the tech support people had a problem finding things.  ;) 
> Cable-modem should be the simplest one, the least likely to give you problems. 
> You keep choosing paths that throw out the easy-answer solutions. :)
> 
> I had a problem once that the DHCP was set to renew itself fairly regularly. 
> (every other day) and that kept knocking out my cablemodem connection.  I ended
> up doing a "no-no" which solved the problem.  Once I connected up once and
> found the IP address that the Cable company gave me, I entered that into the
> router instead of using DHCP.  So I took the IP address, Netmask, and Gateway
> and put those in the WAN IP address area.
> 
> I would not do that unless you find that your router was trying to renew it's
> IP address just before it lost it's connection.

:-) Yeah, depending on your setup the cable company might get mad at you
and/or have to shut service off so you didn't affect another customer.

JSR/