Have you tried looking into your logs?  Is it timing out when you have 
your cable modem plugged in?  No authentication of any sort im guessing 
as well?  Also take a look at http://yourmonowall/exec.php , try a: 
ifconfig , see what the interface is set at.


Brett Krueger [ sigterm at rootednetworks dot com ]
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Wyatt Draggoo wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I have used m0n0wall several times in the past, so I figured setting up a box for a cable modem
connection at our new apartment would be pretty straight-forward.
> 
> Well, of course not.
> 
> In short, the problem is that the WAN isn't getting an IP address.  Both of our laptops in the
house receive one, as does the Linksys wireless router (that I am relegating to an access point once
this is working).  The NICs for the LAN and WAN side are the same model, and I can connect on the
LAN side, so I don't think that's the issue.  I'm also using the same network cable for all of the
connections to rule out a faulty cable.
> 
> My process:
> 
> 1) Remove power from the cable modem
> 2) Wait roughly 15 seconds
> 3) Unplug the network cable from the current device
> 4) Plug the network cable in to the device I am testing
> 5) Power the cable modem back up
> 6) Power on the device to test, if necessary (not necessary for the OS X or XP laptops, not sure
if it's necessary for m0n0wall, so I have if off when I plug it in, and then power it on)
> 
> I have also switched the LAN and WAN side NICs, so I know both NICs are working.
> 
> I spent nearly 4 hours on Sunday trying to figure out what simple, little thing I missed.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Wyatt
> 
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