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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
The bit I don't understand, Igni, is that this is CPE behaviour. Is the flashing light a command bit or something like that in all data?
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The Arris CMTS are edge routers with CMTS cards attached. What the customers are seeing are ARP broadcasts.
With the 'dedicated' kit there are no ARP broadcasts; the CMTS takes care of them by remembering what MAC addresses are where and querying the DHCP server as required if it needs information, then dropping any ARP broadcasts that are sent and responding to the querying device via a unicast.
I have no idea if there's functionality within the Arris equipment to do this, but for right now if there is it's not active, so I presume it's required for the E6k to do its thing.
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Originally Posted by Dark Fiber
I was told by an engineer checking my power levels sometime after my SH1 was installed that the constant flickering occurs when more than four downstream channels are in use.
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The engineer was mistaken.