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Smoothwall issue getting correct IP from cable ISP

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I'm trying to set up the network at a house I moved into. At my previous place I had a cable modem and my smoothwall box for a router, everything worked fine. I contacted Cox tech support to have them unregister my cable modem from the last address and register it here at the new house. Everything is fine if I have the cable modem connected directly to the main PC OR to a Linksys router. As soon as i throw my smoothwall box in after the modem (instead of the linksys router) it will only pick up the cox modem registration webpage/IP address. I've tried multiple reboots (I forgot how to release/renew an IP on the red interface via ssh session), nothing works. Is there a setting on my smoothwall that I'm somehow missing?

Any help would be great, thanks!
 
2 things,
1 - unplug your modem from power for a minute before hooking it up to the smoothy box
2 - go to smoothwall network config and make sure you're doing dhcp for the red network
 
axan said:
2 things,
1 - unplug your modem from power for a minute before hooking it up to the smoothy box
2 - go to smoothwall network config and make sure you're doing dhcp for the red network
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1 - Done this several times in various orders.
2 - While I have not verified this recently there should be no reason it isn't set to dhcp since it was configured that way when I first installed smoothwall.
 
Reboot both the smoothi and the modem. My modem here does this from time to time and you have to reboot the box and while its rebooting unplug modem. Otherwise it willn't crap an ip
 
Just powering off the modem for several minutes so it "forgets" the MAC of the first device it was connected to...and it will "learn" the MAC of your new device (the Smoothie box).

You could try the bandaid fix...clone the MAC address of your Stinky router onto the red interface of your Smoothie box.
 
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