Re: [SLUG] Problems with Telstra Cable that have been happening over the last 3 days

[Matt Hyne <mhyne@xxxxxxxxx>]

Do Telstra still use this ugly heartbeat - thought they were going to scrap 
it because it stops people using VPN software.

Matt

At Sunday, 05-05-02 09:20 (+1000), Paul Robinson wrote:
> Hi Sluggers,
>     I was wondering if anyone else has been having trouble connecting to 
> Bigpond cable lately. Since about Thursday I've barely been able to 
> connect. I'm running RedHat 7.1 with the default kernel and I've had 
> cable working since January with the service being down only a couple of 
> times during that time and each of those times I've been able to check 
> the web and see that there was a problem with the network.
>
> Now though there is no problem with their network and if I use my win2k 
> box to connect with their software everything works fine (hence how I am 
> sending this message). One thing of note, and I believe this may be the 
> problem, is that I have had the same IP address since I joined BPC and set 
> it up for linux. From what I've read about dhcpcd this is entirely 
> possible as it tries to use the same IP in cache whenever it query's the 
> server. With the win2k box though each time I connect I get a new IP and 
> this has been over a period of the 4 days of no Linux.
>
> I've tried getting dhcpcd to get a new ip by using the -k option to get it 
> to release the current ip and start it up with the -n option but all it 
> does is make the current ip work for maybe 6hrs then the whole thing dies 
> again. It says it's receiving heartbeats too quickly and that it's 
> discarding and then directly after that it says it's receiving a bandly 
> structured packet and discarding that. At this point, if I was connected, 
> I no longer am and I'm cannot get back on for up to 12 hrs.
>
> I have all my services blocked from the outside yet I still notice 
> multiple attempts to port 80 by telstra cable ip's. n.b. icmp is still 
> allowed since that would muck up heartbeats. The only port allowed to 
> connect from outside is the ip of my dce-server on port 5050 to any port 
> on my box. Of note though, even if I shut down the firewall completely 
> nothing changes.
>
> So after explaining my plight, 2 questions.
>
> 1) Is anyone else having issues with bpalogin and telstra cable or is it 
> just me.
>
> 2) Is there any way to force dhcpcd to get a new IP? I have read the man 
> page for it and the -k -n two options seem to be the only way but that 
> doesn't work for me.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul