> Uh ok this is a braindead reply but did you try > turning off > the modem for a few minutes. I had a hard time > getting my new > machine to work with cable, it suddenly worked on the > third network card (a 3c905b). -chris
Not as brain dead as you may think, a lot depends upon how you cable modem provider sets up their system. On my [EMAIL PROTECTED], which used to Garden State [EMAIL PROTECTED], they use static ip's (woo hoo :) tied to the cable modem serial #. Even so, before I put the gateway/firewall in I was continually swapping machines connected to the cable modem (mac, windoze, linux, hp-ux) and the local cable modem segment would get very confused with the different mac addresses trying to use the same ip. Power cycling the cable-modem box would fix this. Even now with the gateway in place, the cable modem needs to be power-cycled every now and then if the local segment goes haywire. If your provider ties the ip directly to the mac on the network card then you can use a different card but you have to tell the provider about it (a quick, oooh lightning took out my network cards should be a sufficient reason for them.) Mike
