<div>Is the Belkin supplied by the ISP and acting as the Router/Gateway/Modem or is it just a peice of equipment you installed on the internal side of the network ?</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Michael Mol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Eric Beversluis<br>
<div class="im"><<a href="mailto:ebever@researchintegration.org">ebever@researchintegration.org</a>> wrote:<br>> On 12/28/2010 9:55 AM, Michael Mol wrote:<br>>><br>>> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Eric Beversluis<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:ebever@researchintegration.org">ebever@researchintegration.org</a>> wrote:<br>>>><br>>>> On 12/28/2010 9:28 AM, Eric Beversluis wrote:<br>>>> NADA. Did factory reset etc. Still no Internet connectivity, just LAN,<br>
>>> from<br>>>> the Lenovo Linux box.<br>>><br>>> I wonder if it's a "detecting network freeloaders" feature or some<br>>> such. It might be triggering on a spoofed MAC address, or it might be<br>
>> reticent about allowing newcomers to the network.<br>>><br>>> What distro and role does the Linux box have? What kind of servers and<br>>> network services is it running, if any? Did you have to do any weird<br>
>> configuration steps to get it to do what it does?<br>>><br>> If TimeWarner or the Belkin router were blocking by MAC address, the boot<br>> from the live Ubuntu wouldn't have worked either, would it?<br>
> @Mol: Running openSUSE 10.2. Nothing special that I know. I've been doing<br>> all the updates as they come. A month or so ago there seemed to be some<br>> changes: the xconsole started showing up when booting (and remaining in the<br>
> bottom panel tray till I close it) and the logon screen changed. But<br>> whatever happened then is long enough ago that I doubt if it has anything to<br>> do with this problem.<br>><br>> When you say "I wonder if it's a "detecting...", what 'it' are you referring<br>
> to? The box? the router? the ISP?<br><br></div>The ISP has *nothing* to do with this; I've never heard that a<br>consumer ISP outside the cellular arena that has active management on<br>the router side of a SOHO setup. At most, I've seen them update<br>
firmware on modems. They manage their network, your manage yours.<br><br>When I say "it", I'm talking about the features in the Belkin router.<br>
<div class="im"><br>><br>> I don't have anything special running, that I know of. I use the terminal<br>> server client a lot to access my Windows boxes, and that's still working<br>> fine.<br><br></div>
What model is the router? At this point, I'd google for 'openSSUSE<br>10.2 [router model]' and similar for more information.<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br>:wq<br></font>
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