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[Armin Moradi]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 7:05 PM, <dnvot at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Message: 8
> Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:42:14 -0400
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> Subject: Re: Baffled by a Cable Modem
> To: "Community assistance, encouragement,    and advice for using
>    Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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> On 06/20/2009 10:38 AM, Jim wrote:
>
> >> What your forgetting is the mac# from a previous device, Computer ,etc,
> >> some cable modems will retain that mac # and not connect to any new
> >> devices until you clear the old one.
> >>
>
> > I thought he had connectivity - just not to all hosts - so this sounds
> >like a red herring.
>
> I have been trying to follow this line of trouble shooting, but it think it
> is above my pay grade.
> But I think you are right about the red-herring. I can ping any one I have
> tried. I think that means my DHCP and DNS are OK.
>
> >Could it be DNS problem?  ... firefox caches dns ... so some cached
> >hosts may work
> That looks promising. If firefox is cacheing a bad dns, then maybe
> everything else would work OK except firefox. Maybe, if it cached a google
> dns, it would work with the google stuff, which it does, but not other
> sites.
> However, I also tried dillo, with the same unable to load result.
> I had an idea of how to check this. I booted the problem computer with fc9
> Live-CD. (I think that gives me all clean configuration files) and I had the
> same problem and gmail still worked.
>
> I have connected the ethernet cable out of the modem to my old computer (
> fc8). I tried to boot, which went OK, except the modem wasn't found. I then
>  powered down the modem and the computer, then powered them both up and
> booted.
> It seems to work fine. (Maybe this computer works on saturdays)
> To me, it acts like hardware. Next I think I will try putting in an old NIC
> that I have and see what happens.
>
>
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Could someone put a sane subject on this please?  (no subject) doesn't make
any sense.

-- 
Armin Moradi
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