[H-GEN] Motorola Cable modem

[Michael Anthon]

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On Wednesday 12 November 2003 13:22, Alan Harrison wrote:
> I've been trying to fit a firewall between a Motorola SB4200 Cable modem
> and a LAN.
> If I connect my Laptop (win2k) directly to the modem (Ethernet connection),
> the modem's DHCP server gives me an IP address.
> If I try the same piece of Ethernet cable into a smoothwall box that is set
> to obtain an IP address automatically via DHCP, I do not get an IP address.
>
> Has anyone had any experience with these modems on the Optus cable network?

Going on past experience, I'm going to guess that smoothwall uses pump as it's 
dhcp client.  I had trouble and I know others have as well using pump on 
Optus.  Installed the ISC dhcp client and all was happy.  I can't explain why 
this was the case as it doesn't make sense.

Cheers

Michael


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