[GRLUG] DoS Block on my local IP address

[Eric Beversluis]

On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 10:37 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> On 12/28/2010 10:25 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> I think, given that the live Ubuntu boot had no connectivity problem, 
> I'll just do a fresh install, either 11.3 or Ubuntu.
> 
> Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll report on how things work after the 
> reinstall.
> 
> 
Well the new install works fine. Must have been something in the
opensuse that somehow got screwed up. It will be nice if this also
solves my screen-darkening problem, but I suspect that's an inverter
problem, from what I read. 

The new install kept most of my old desktop with the panels I had,
except for a number of missing panel icons. Strange hybrid between
opensuse and ubuntu looks...

Thanks again for the various suggestions. 


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