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| * grumble grumble * |
by radiowave911 |
2006-09-16 22:16:10 |
Thanks, Comcast.
I have waht I am expecting to be a longish conference call tomorrow morning. I figured I probably ought to check out the headset attached to my wired telephone. I should probably mention that I have two phone lines here, both through Vonage, both have been working extremely well....up to now.
I picked up the lie for our *main* house number. Nothing but 'battery' (I.E. there was power, but no dial tone or any other signalon the line). I pick up the cordless phone on that line - same deal. I go to check the terminal adapter - it is flashing it's 'I am waiting to get an address so I can initialize' light.
So, I reboot the TA, still no joy. The other TA is perfectly happy. My firewall is perfectly happy. This TA is not. I hook my PC up to it's 'PC' LAN port (it acts as a router of sorts in addition to being a TA), get an address and bring up the status page. The WAN address is all 0's.
I have had problems in the past where the cable service locks in a set of MAC addresses, and will not give any more DHCP addresses until I reboot the modem, which I do....I am not talking a 20 second power cycle here, I am talking about 'disconnect *everything* (including power, cable, and Ethernet), wait 15 minutes and hook it all back up'. No joy. Same problem. I disconnect the 'working' TA, rebooth the modem again (just a quickie, this time), and lo and behold, the TA for the main phone lie comes up like it's supposed to. I plug the other TA back into the network, it is now flashing it's 'I can't get an address' message. WTF? This worked fine yesterday. This morning, the entire service (all internet) was down, a reboot of the modem corrected that, however now it seems as though I can only have *2* addresses at a time!
I gues it's time to call tech support. After my conference call tomorrow (it's a pretty big deal - global network reconfiguration and all that).
In case anyone cares, I have my cable modem's ethernet connected to a switch (Cisco 1900), Both TAs and my Firewall are also connected to the switch. The Cable modem is an RCA something-or-other, the terminal adapters are Motorola VT1005V units, and the firewall is a Smoothwall.
I guess I should have put a rant warning at the beginning of this. Oh well. It's after 1AM, I have to be on the call around 8. I'm heading off to bed. |
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