Jaycee,
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Originally Posted by jaycee
edit 2: i should read before posting, you are using dhclient. Check ports 67 and 68 are allowed through your firewall. I use dhclient on FreeBSD and it works perfectly with my NTL setup (I am using a cable modem, but it makes no difference)
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I've not started the firewall (shorewall) yet as I cant make a connection with Linux. However, I've checked with 'iptables -L' to make sure no traffic is blocked.
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Originally Posted by jaycee
edit 3: are you aware you have to cold boot the STB every time you change the NIC it is connected to ? It's possible the STB is simply ignoring the Linux box because of this.
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It is the same NIC I'm using with both Linux & Windows. I believe the MAC address would be same irrespective of which OS I'm using?
Here's something I did trying to outsmart the NTL's dhcp server.
1. Boot into windows and get a lease.
2. Re-boot into linux and set the same config manually (giving same IP address etc.)
still the damn thing doesnt work.
I can see network packets going out but nothing coming back when dhclient is negotiating.