From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JOWKw-0007Es-1r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:56:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6288EE0345; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:56:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B869E0345 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:56:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EBF3674D6 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:56:31 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.599 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.599 required=5.5 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id eFFJm3dcp7XH for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:56:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A791C6748E for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:56:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JOWKd-0007Xf-QI for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:56:15 +0000 Received: from adsl-76-193-18-128.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net ([76.193.18.128]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:56:15 +0000 Received: from reader by adsl-76-193-18-128.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:56:15 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: reader@newsguy.com Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Interrogate network for devices Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:56:00 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87r6fjwym7.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87sl01v3hg.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-76-193-18-128.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QAEHyO6pwpu7fvpZ2N9Je5EO4S8= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: af6ae1ce-2362-49f9-b43d-d2c19c00a91e X-Archives-Hash: 8a161d509b0819957bc40a7092c90338 reader@newsguy.com writes: > I've recently switched from DSL to Cable connection but still have > both working currently. I've snipped all responses but carefully read through them. I think I didn't provide enough info at the outset. I see now that this cable modem has no ethernet address as several posters have suggested. Listing models may help the discussion so here they are: The Comcast Cable modem: Scientific Atlanta-DPC2100RC (has MAC listed on the sticker) Two different Netgear Router/firewalls have been tried. Same router but older and newer models: Older Netgear: FVS318 (Says Cable/DSL PROsafe VPN Firewall FVS318 across the front) Newer Netgear: FVS318v3 (Says Cable/DSL PROsafe VPN Firewall FVS318 across the front) The newer one is a couple of years newer and purchased about 1 yr ago. It may just be software differences but they do have somewhat different interfaces. The older one is using the latest software it is capable of loading, as is the newer one, but in the later case the software is a newer version than the old one supports. One curious thing here is that both of these Netgear routers have at one time or another been connected to a Comcast provided modem and worked fine. In both of those cases the Netgear using its connection wizard, simply found and ID'ed the cable modem... and just worked from there on. I only setup the lanside addressing since I prefer all static addresses inside. Ditto for DSL... again both Netgear routers have worked with DSL routers and again the connection was established by simply running the connection wizard. In the current case, neither of these routers was able to just identify and connect to the cable modem or internet through it. And in both cases the wizard ends up saying the connection type is STATIC and offers to accept the static addresses from user. I doubt the addressing is really STATIC. I think my next step here will be to take the IP address and Nameserver from IPconfig (or netstat) on the windows box that will connect using the Cable modem, and see if those addresses will work when inserted into the netgears as static outside addresses to connect to. If that works, It may hold until a new address is issued for whatever reason from comcast... and I may get some help from them by then. I will report back if there is any interest? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list