dhcp failed discover sent no offer recieved

[ratcatcher]

hi all i have read threw loads of posts and am really stuck i had quite a stockpile of macs however earlier today my modem went off so changed the mac oh a fair few times and everytime i checked event log as it was stuck on establish ip connectivity and in the event log kept getting this dhcp failed discover sent no offer recieved so r all my macs no good now as im on dongle now and it isnt fast i wud even be happy with 2 meg lololol i cant wait to get my new install thanx guys for any help

[fnr3master]

thats wot happens when u turn off ur haxoware modem at the moment iam afraid m8, the mac goes dead and then if you try 5 or 6 macs and dont get online, u will find u will need to leave ur modem off for over 4 hours and then without the coax in change ur mac and serial no. and reboot and then put coax back in once its online dont turn it off or reboot or u will be back to square 1.

somtimes you have to leave the modem off longer maybe a few days.
also when u try it again try it with a mac u aint tried if possible
and u will find macs that did't work for you 2day which gave u theis dhcp offer/sent problem. them macs will work again after a week or 2.

[fnr3master]

erm just ignore wot ive posted above, it turns out if u change u stealth settings then it will run fine.

[ratcatcher]

so what u r saying is all the dhcp faileds are down to stealth

[jack the nipper]

Originally Posted by fnr3master

erm just ignore wot ive posted above, it turns out if u change u stealth settings then it will run fine.

what do you change the settings to mate ?..ta.......im on a sb5101e hax1.1literev39..

[fnr3master]

Originally Posted by jack the nipper

what do you change the settings to mate ?..ta.......im on a sb5101e hax1.1literev39..

on my sb5101e i just used a mac starting with 0040

and in the stealth tab setting i changed it to this below

Vendor - Scientific Atlanta
Model - EPC2100R2
SW Version - v2.0.2r1256-060303
HW Version - 2.0
Bootloader - 2.1.6d

and it reboots fine now, iam using it now

the same setting worked in my s/a 2100
and the ambit setting worked in my s/a 2100

[fnr3master]

Originally Posted by ratcatcher

so what u r saying is all the dhcp faileds are down to stealth

well m8 before i just changed these settings most of my macs went from working, to ranging and dhcp offer probs when modem was rebooted or unplugged.

but since ive changed them 2day ive rebooted various haxo modems numerous times as ive been tinkering all afternoon, so far so good.

hopefully it will work for you.

but u still need good macs as usual

[ratcatcher]

in my area it has nowt to do with stealth as im online with a 256 stealth left at default i found the reason my macs didnt work because of the ubr change that must of happened in my area so all my macs that were dead before i retested them untill wud u believe it i found a 10meg that duidnt reboot within the hour so i left it on been on for 2 days too scared to reboot we will just wait and c if it makes it past a week