[H-GEN] DHCP and Telstra

[Conor Cunningham]

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hello,

Going along with what Rob said, Optus use MAC based authentication, as 
too does telstra in addition to a user/pass unlike optus.

When placing the modem on another machine, we had to disconnect the 
power from the modem to reset it for a couple of minutes, as optus took 
the mac of the modem and the NIC and used these for authentication.

Perhaps this may be of assistance.

cheers,

conor

Robert Brockway wrote:

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>On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Paul Gearon wrote:
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>>Hi all,
>>
>>Is anyone out there running Bigpond cable?
>>
>>Yesterday Telstra took the service down due to "problems with Motorola
>>cable modems logging in".  Not sure why as I have a Motorola modem, and
>>I've always been fine.
>>
>>When they came back up I've discovered that at least one of my Linux boxes
>>can no longer obtain an address by DHCP.  After much frustration I used
>>the sledgehammer approach, and got an address with a Windows 98 box, and
>>then configured the Linux box to use that IP address permanently.
>>
>
>When helping a friend with BigPond Cable & Linux I had to tell the windows
>box that had formerly been on the link to explicely release the IP before
>the Linux box could get one.  They were authenticating/locking on the MAC
>address I believe.  When we told it to release it cleared the MAC address
>lock.  The Linux box has never had to release before we changed the cable
>to another box however.
>
>This is not exactly like your situation but try an explicit release under
>Win98 then bring the Linux box in.  This may or may not help but is worth
>a shot imho.
>
>Cheers,
>	-Rob
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