[BLU] More MediaOne woes
Jerry Feldman
gaf at blu.org
Wed Dec 20 13:29:00 EST 2000
BTW: I have been using my Linksys BEFSR41 lately and it has not
missed a beat. I did change the MAC address onthe Linksys box so that
I can plug in my Linux system if something goes wrong with the Linksys.
Make sure you have the latest firmware on the Netgear Router. I hope
you have thr RT314 not the RT311.
On 20 Dec 2000, at 11:22, John Abreau wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, David Kramer wrote:
>
> > At its worst, it was never that bad for me. Does the sync lock light on
> > the cablemodem stay on?
>
> Cablemodem looks okay; the sync light stays on the whole time.
>
> > When I had problems, I found it helpful to put a lot of echo statements in
> > the ifup* scripts and the other scripts they called. Also most of the
> > dhcp clients have a verbose option. Which dhcp client are you using?
>
> I had it installed on my iMac, and I was unable to switch it to my Netgear
> router. I haven't tried it on a Linux machine yet.
>
> I did try hard-wiring the address to what DHCP had assigned, and that gave
> the same symptoms; it would work for a while, then lock up, and sometimes
> resetting the NIC would fix it, sometimes it wouldn't.
>
> > As a side question, we've been videotaping for quite a few meetings by
> > now. Are any of them available on the server yet?
>
> The files are still rather large, and I haven't settled on a format yet. I
> tried RealProducer at one point, but it generated a file that wouldn't
> play in the Linux player. I've got a Quicktime movie using the
> Motion-JPEG codec that plays in XMovie, but that file is 1.5 gb, and I
> wasn't about to upload that through a 56k modem. It's also too big to fit
> on a CD.
>
> I haven't gotten the DV vcr working yet, so I haven't had a chance to wipe
> the ESR video from the hard drive and start on the next month's video yet.
> Now that Broadcast 2000 now supports firewire, I'm planning on picking up
> a 1.1ghz T-bird system sometime soon and trying out B2000 with the next
> video.
>
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>
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