Attbi Woes

[bconway at alum.wpi.edu (Brian J. Conway)]

> dnslookup works, nothing else does.
> 
> tcpdump shows arp requests coming from upstream, but nothing else. It
> would seem that they lied to me and have not activated the service, but
> there is also the possibility that it is a change in policy that requires
> some winblows specific handshake to get the service running.

I've had no problems since I was hooked up 4 months ago with Attbi in 
Tewksbury.  My firewall is a FreeBSD machine NATing for the internal 
network, and after the install I just called up AT&T tech support to give 
them my MAC address, and 5 minutes later fired up dhclient.  Neither the 
service nor the machine has been down since, and I'm quite pleased with 
the speed.

-b