>  In article <200610220317.k9M3HLuR004127@bigbox.wan.vpn>,
>  Paul Newhouse  <newhouse@rockhead.com> wrote:
>
>  >My old cable modem seized up and died a while back and
>
>  try tcpdump -vv -s 1500 -i tlp1 port bootpc or port bootps
>  
>  christos

christos -

Thanks for the better tcpdump parameters.  

Fixing my way to "anal" portsentry settings fixed things.

Michael Thompson -

>Our local cable company registers the MAC address 

Thanks for the heads up but, not the problem in this case.

Paul