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Will a buggy dhcp server cause the modem's power to go out?

I received yet another note from a Foster City user with a RCA DCM105 that
experienced similar problems.

BTW, I've had same ip since long before this problem as I do right now.
Everything has been fine here since Saturday am.  The IM problem that I
mentioned below cleared up this afternoon.

Bruce

"Miguel Sanchez" <msanchez@noneofyourbusiness.org> wrote in message
news:pan.2002.07.15.18.57.47.31703.17561@noneofyourbusiness.org...
> I scheduled a service call over the weekend, but got a voice mail this
> morning saying that there was a network outage in the area (San
> Mateo/Foster City) and they cancelled my service call.
> I never thought I'd here that from att ;).
>
> Now my modem is doing other strange things like losing connection, but
> the lights remain on and the power button doesn't work.  Previously, I
> would just renew my dhcp lease ("dhcpcd -n" over and over until i got a
> valid lease), but now it just times out -- according to the firewall logs.
>
> Maybe they finally realized
> that their dhcp server is dodgy.  Makes me long for the days of @home and
> the legit static IP.
>
> It looks like ATTbi is blocking all ports.  SSH used to work for me --
> called a friend, had him try to connect, no dice.  Then I moved it to
> some obscure high ports, but met no success.  Now I'm seriously pissed!
>
> Marc
>
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 08:48:03 -0700, Bruce Karnacki wrote:
>
> > Your are the third person that replied saying that they exeperienced the
> > same 'phenomenon' during the same time window.  Two others responed to
> > me privately.  One is in San Mateo, one is in Belmont.  I'm in San
> > Carlos.
> >
> > Based on these replies, I'm up in the air as to whether or not to let
> > attbi change out the modem on Wednesday.  I hate to have them change
> > anything.  If they do, it could be days before I'm back up, or it could
> > be minutes.  Never know.
> >
> > One other thing that happened to me last night is that all of my
> > family's AOL Instant Messenger connections went down.  We all have the
> > IM message "Connection Lost".  When we try to connect, it hangs for a
> > while and then says can't connect.
> >
> > I can, however connect with these screen names on non-attbi machines.  I
> > believe IM uses port 5190.  Could attbi be blocking that?
> >
> > Bruce
> >
> >
> >