[SunHELP] My last straw in getting Solaris 8 on the Internet.

[Beauford]

Your on the right track, but in my case they had to flush the cache from
the headend modem in order to release my MAC address. 

Thanks for the input.

-----Original Message-----
From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org] On
Behalf Of Dave Gargan
Sent: August 6, 2001 6:20 PM
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] My last straw in getting Solaris 8 on the
Internet.


Not sure if this is the case for your Terayon modem, but if it works the
same as my GE modem, then you actually have to power it off, disconnect
the cat5 cable from it, then power it back on, wait for the lights to
settle down, and plug the cat5 back into the new machine and the modem.


I had a similiar problem when switching the network connection from one
machine to another.  I tried everything... (or so I thought).  This was
before @home bought the internet portion of the local cable provider, so
I could actually call somebody and get to talk to the sysadmins.  They
told me that I had to power cycle the modem while it wasn't connected to
a nic so that it would clear itself.  Then connect it to the new nic and
it should work.  Voila, it worked!

I think this is because the cablemodem is tying itself to the mac
address of the machine you are connecting it to.

Dave
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