[Cialug] new cable modem advice

[Jerry Weida]

Actually I do not work evenings.  I used to work in tech support, but
the Data Center is Mon-Fri 8-5, plus some on-call.

I don't normally make it to the meetings, but I may try and get to some of them.


On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 05:56:06 -0600, Don Cady <doncady@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> -snip-
> > However, these "minor deviations" from the DOCSIS 1.1 and PacketCable
> > 1.0 specs have cost us some man hours in trying to get their modems
> > working with VoIP.  There are workarounds that we can do, but they
> > don't always seem stable.
> We were just talking about this Wed. night. It would have been great if you
> could've been there. (but you probably work evenings, right?)
> 
> > Also, their deviation from the DOCSIS 1.1 spec caused a bit of a
> > problem we someone learned that the bridge between the ethernet port
> > and the cable RF side wasn't disabled during the initial boot process.
> > This combined with the "deviation" that a modem isn't suppose to
> > accept a download of configuration from the ethernet side caused it so
> > that the Motorola's could be "hacked" very easily and we ended up
> > suspending several peoples accounts and dropping them due to constant
> > violations.  Of course, this point probably won't sway you away from
> > the brand :)  But it does illustrate Motorola's abillity to pass the
> > spec tests, but not particularly adhere to the specs.
> Years of government contracting.
> 
> Don
> 
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