Team -

Recently, I have discovered that Adelphia is now doing MAC authentication
for their cable modem residential customers.  This means that you have to
tell what Adelphia what network card and MAC will be used to allow a DHCP
lease to be given.  This behavior also happens if your IP address changes
from a routable to a non-routable (i.e,. 192.168.x.x).

This same scenario happened here in Ohio.  How it was solved was by calling
Adelphia Tech Support, give them your MAC, and reset the cable modem.  Up
and running in 2 minutes.

Hope this helps.

___________________________________

Jonathan Merrill
CCA, MCP, Net+
www.gomerrill.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Kitchens [mailto:spider at webweaver dot com] 
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 11:45 PM
To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] Problems with Adelphia cable

 I have seen this many times, as Fred suggests, turn off the cable modem for
at least 2 minutes, go make coffee to be sure. The cable modems tie into the
MAC address of the nic they last connected to and they hold it in memory.

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Weston [mailto:fred dot weston at daytonawan dot com]
> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 8:07 PM
> To: Mine GO BOOM
> Cc: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
> Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Problems with Adelphia cable
> 
> Mine GO BOOM wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> >  I use Adelphia's cable service for internet access. I
> currently use a
> > Linksys router for my service, but wanted to setup a dedicated 
> > firewall with m0n0wall on an old 90mhz machine.
> >
> >  I've gotten everything setup on the firewall so it works
> perfect on
> > the LAN side, and when connected to the Linksys router
> running under
> > DMZ, works like it should. Allows internet access, filters
> the correct
> > packets, traffic shaping looks good. But when I attempt to connect 
> > directly to the cable modem (Motorola SB5100), both with normal MAC 
> > and with spoofed MAC, it will not retrieve an IP while set
> with DHCP.
> > If I set to Static with the IP/Gateway that the Linksys
> router uses,
> > it still won't work.
> >
> >  Any suggestions for how to resolve this problem? I really like 
> > m0n0wall, but it defeats the purpose if I have to use a
> linksys router
> > in front of it.
> >
> > -Ryan Murphy
> 
> Try turning the modem off for a few minutes and then back on. 
>  If that doesn't work, call tech support and tell them you're running 
> Windows XP, you'll have to translate of course.
> m0n0wall works fine getting an IP using DHCP, so it's something with 
> their stuff.
> 
> --
> Fred Weston
> DaytonaWAN Networks, Inc.
> www.DaytonaWAN.com
> 
> 
> 
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