Disable MTA initialization in Ubee cable modems

Hello alpena,

I've not used Ubee modems, but I shut the phone port off on the Arris DG-3452 in the modem config file. We don't use the phone ports on those modems, and shutting off the port does 2 positive things, stops the phone light on the modem from blinking, and stops the mta portion from pounding the dhcp server trying to get an ip address.

Here is a snippet from one of the 3452's on our system:iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.2.6 = STRING: "External Switch Port 1"
iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.2.7 = STRING: "External Switch Port 2"
iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.2.8 = STRING: "External Switch Port 3"
iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.2.9 = STRING: "External Switch Port 4"
iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.2.15 = STRING: "DSLite Tunnel Interface"
iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.2.16 = STRING: "PacketCable Embedded Interface" <--------------!
iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.2.48 = STRING: "RF Downstream Interface 1"
iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.2.49 = STRING: "RF Downstream Interface 2"
iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.2.50 = STRING: "RF Downstream Interface 3"
iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.2.51 = STRING: "RF Downstream Interface 4"
iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.2.52 = STRING: "RF Downstream Interface 5"

Do a mibwalk of the device, it should be near the beginning of your walk.

I only work with EVW32x modems. In our case we don't send dhcp option 122 to the CM and it solves the issue.