[wplug] Comcast cable modem woes

[Aaron M.]

I've had this happen to me from time to time, and I have a similar setup 
to yours (Linux router/firewall running Gentoo). Once in a while I'll 
lose all connectivity for about a minute, and then everything is fine 
again. During the time which I have no connectivity, I can usually still 
get to my cable modem's status page at 192.168.100.1 just fine, meaning 
that traffic is passing through the router without any troubles. I 
usually just blame it on Comcast and move on/deal with it, although it 
is annoying for someone like me who is usually connected to about 9 IRC 
networks 24/7, lol.

Eric Cooper wrote:
> I have a cable modem connected to a Debian router/firewall with 2 3Com
> Vortex NICs.  In the past month or so I've been experiencing annoying
> freezes, where there is 100% packet loss to the Comcast router for as
> much as a minute, after which traffic flows again.
>
> Before I start swapping NICs and cable modems, has anyone else
> experienced this?
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