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2620 with cable modem
I have a 2620 with a cable modem. I am recieving the ip through dhcp, but with a couple problem.
For one it is very hard to get an ip assigned to this router. I reload the router, power cycle the modem, shutdown and no shutdown the interface and eventually whether it takes a minute or 30 minutes of fooling around I will recieve an ip somewhere along the way. no set process will give me an ip address.
Second, pages are not as snappy as if I hooked up a little linksys router. Speed tests come out the same on either, but the cisco router seems to be waiting for page, in most cases a second or two longer. Sometimes pages will stop loading half way through. The overall expeirence is just not as quick.
Does anyone have an thoughts?
For one it is very hard to get an ip assigned to this router. I reload the router, power cycle the modem, shutdown and no shutdown the interface and eventually whether it takes a minute or 30 minutes of fooling around I will recieve an ip somewhere along the way. no set process will give me an ip address.
Second, pages are not as snappy as if I hooked up a little linksys router. Speed tests come out the same on either, but the cisco router seems to be waiting for page, in most cases a second or two longer. Sometimes pages will stop loading half way through. The overall expeirence is just not as quick.
Does anyone have an thoughts?
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Some other things that may need to be done are :
1. Check your interface for speed/duplex (check for errors)
Sometimes this can cause big problems, especially in a large broadcast domain (i.e. cable modem)
2. Try lowering your MTU and/or MSS sizes.
Depending on how your ISP handles their cable modem platform, your router may be having problems with larger packets (causing web page slowdowns) This is especially true if your router uses PPPoE to connect to the ISP. Try reducing the MTU to a value below 1400. Then if that works, then you can slowly increase the value to maximize the performance of the interface.
You can change these settings on the interface with the following commands:
speed [10/100]
duplex [half/full]
ip mtu [value]
1. Check your interface for speed/duplex (check for errors)
Sometimes this can cause big problems, especially in a large broadcast domain (i.e. cable modem)
2. Try lowering your MTU and/or MSS sizes.
Depending on how your ISP handles their cable modem platform, your router may be having problems with larger packets (causing web page slowdowns) This is especially true if your router uses PPPoE to connect to the ISP. Try reducing the MTU to a value below 1400. Then if that works, then you can slowly increase the value to maximize the performance of the interface.
You can change these settings on the interface with the following commands:
speed [10/100]
duplex [half/full]
ip mtu [value]
In my experience with 2600's, 1700's, etc...getting an ip address via dhcp on cable networks will cause you to go insane. What I would do is this, if your ip rarely changes. Use your linksys to pull an ip, or use your router if it will grab one - note the ip address. Then, if you used the linksys, assign the mac address of your linksys to the outside interface of your router, and statically assign the interface the dhcp info you received. If you are able to pull dhcp with just the router, statically assign the interface the dhcp'd info.
I would recommend that you spend the extra money to get what most cable companies call a "sticky" or "persistent" ip address. It is basically dhcp reservation, but for some reason they still won't guarantee that you will keep that address. Especially during periods in which they change their core equipment. But, the great thing is, you can statically assign the ip that is dhcpd'd to you, and you won't have to worry about their dhcp server giving your ip to someone else because it is reserved for the mac of your router....most times.
I would recommend that you spend the extra money to get what most cable companies call a "sticky" or "persistent" ip address. It is basically dhcp reservation, but for some reason they still won't guarantee that you will keep that address. Especially during periods in which they change their core equipment. But, the great thing is, you can statically assign the ip that is dhcpd'd to you, and you won't have to worry about their dhcp server giving your ip to someone else because it is reserved for the mac of your router....most times.
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I did manually assign the ip that the linksys was getting, but still having the performance issues. At least I don't have to worry about the dhcp issue anymore.
I checked for errors, none what so ever. I could not change the mtu setting, router would not let me. I did set mss to 1400 with no effect.
MTU 1500 bytes, BW 100000 Kbit, DLY 100 usec,
reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255
Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
Keepalive set (10 sec)
Full-duplex, 100Mb/s, 100BaseTX/FX
ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
Last input 00:00:00, output 00:00:00, output hang never
Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0
Queueing strategy: fifo
Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)
5 minute input rate 6000 bits/sec, 13 packets/sec
5 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
36063 packets input, 3825865 bytes
Received 32015 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored
0 watchdog
0 input packets with dribble condition detected
3841 packets output, 1889451 bytes, 0 underruns
0 output errors, 0 collisions, 1 interface resets
0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred
0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier
0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out
Alot of broadcasts, guess thats just cable company.
The error I get when trying to set the mtu on an interface is this
% Interface FastEthernet0/0 does not support user settable mtu
and when I try to set the mtu on a sub interface I get
% Non-TRISL encapsulated sub-interface FastEthernet0/0.10 does not support user settable mtu.
I can use ip tcp adjust-mss 1400 on both
I checked for errors, none what so ever. I could not change the mtu setting, router would not let me. I did set mss to 1400 with no effect.
MTU 1500 bytes, BW 100000 Kbit, DLY 100 usec,
reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255
Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
Keepalive set (10 sec)
Full-duplex, 100Mb/s, 100BaseTX/FX
ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
Last input 00:00:00, output 00:00:00, output hang never
Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0
Queueing strategy: fifo
Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)
5 minute input rate 6000 bits/sec, 13 packets/sec
5 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
36063 packets input, 3825865 bytes
Received 32015 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored
0 watchdog
0 input packets with dribble condition detected
3841 packets output, 1889451 bytes, 0 underruns
0 output errors, 0 collisions, 1 interface resets
0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred
0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier
0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out
Alot of broadcasts, guess thats just cable company.
The error I get when trying to set the mtu on an interface is this
% Interface FastEthernet0/0 does not support user settable mtu
and when I try to set the mtu on a sub interface I get
% Non-TRISL encapsulated sub-interface FastEthernet0/0.10 does not support user settable mtu.
I can use ip tcp adjust-mss 1400 on both
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Although I did just manually set the linksys to 1500MTU and its working great.
Are you using for your default route statement....
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 fa 0/0
or
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 x.x.x.x
Where x.x.x.x is the actual ip of your gateway?
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 fa 0/0
or
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 x.x.x.x
Where x.x.x.x is the actual ip of your gateway?
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I'm using
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 fa0/0.10
which is the subinterface to the WAN connection.
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 fa0/0.10
which is the subinterface to the WAN connection.
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Agree w/gmooney7
It is not recommended to use a broadcast interface (Ethernet) as a gateway. It will severely impact performance because the router has to arp for a next hop for every foreigh ip address.
It is not recommended to use a broadcast interface (Ethernet) as a gateway. It will severely impact performance because the router has to arp for a next hop for every foreigh ip address.
Also, I've seen some cases where you may get an IP address, but still can't connect to the internet. If you remove the 0.0.0.0 route all together, that may help.
This only works when you are receiving information via DHCP (which will include the default gateway address)
This only works when you are receiving information via DHCP (which will include the default gateway address)
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You were right on, I needed to specify the gateway in the route. works great now, thanks.
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Strangely, my ip has changed 3 times in the last 2 days with this setup.
You might have to go for the sticky ip option then. Call your cable company for pricing.
Unfortunately, I have not heard of a cable company yet offereing actual static ip's. But, I've talked to a couple that have it in the works to actually make static ip's available to customers. Thank God!
Unfortunately, I have not heard of a cable company yet offereing actual static ip's. But, I've talked to a couple that have it in the works to actually make static ip's available to customers. Thank God!
ip address dhcp
To acquire an IP address on an Ethernet interface from the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), use the ip address dhcp interface configuration command. To deconfigure any address that was acquired, use the no form of this command.
ip address dhcp [client-id interface-name] [hostname host-name]
no ip address dhcp [client-id interface-name] [hostname host-name]
see http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122cgcr/fipras_r/1rfdhcp.htm#wp1049289