[GRLUG] DoS Block on my local IP address

[Michael Mol]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Eric Beversluis
<ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
> On 12/28/2010 9:55 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Eric Beversluis
>> <ebever at researchintegration.org>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 12/28/2010 9:28 AM, Eric Beversluis wrote:
>>> NADA. Did factory reset etc. Still no Internet connectivity, just LAN,
>>> from
>>> the Lenovo Linux box.
>>
>> I wonder if it's a "detecting network freeloaders" feature or some
>> such. It might be triggering on a spoofed MAC address, or it might be
>> reticent about allowing newcomers to the network.
>>
>> What distro and role does the Linux box have? What kind of servers and
>> network services is it running, if any? Did you have to do any weird
>> configuration steps to get it to do what it does?
>>
> If TimeWarner or the Belkin router were blocking by MAC address, the boot
> from the live Ubuntu wouldn't have worked either, would it?
> @Mol: Running openSUSE 10.2. Nothing special that I know. I've been doing
> all the updates as they come. A month or so ago there seemed to be some
> changes: the xconsole started showing up when booting (and remaining in the
> bottom panel tray till I close it) and the logon screen changed.  But
> whatever happened then is long enough ago that I doubt if it has anything to
> do with this problem.
>
> When you say "I wonder if it's a "detecting...", what 'it' are you referring
> to? The box? the router? the ISP?

The ISP has *nothing* to do with this; I've never heard that a
consumer ISP outside the cellular arena that has active management on
the router side of a SOHO setup. At most, I've seen them update
firmware on modems. They manage their network, your manage yours.

When I say "it", I'm talking about the features in the Belkin router.

>
> I don't have anything special running, that I know of. I use the terminal
> server client a lot to access my Windows boxes, and that's still working
> fine.

What model is the router? At this point, I'd google for 'openSSUSE
10.2 [router model]' and similar for more information.

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