[GLLUG] Linux

[Mike Neir]

Yup, and in my experience, if you do have troubles with your cable modem
getting stuck on the Windows box MAC address, you can just pull the
power on the cable modem for 5 minutes or so to let the modem forget
everything and plug it back in. Should be good to go then. 

MN

On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 13:26, Benjamin Minshall wrote:
> > 
> > I'm using comcast here.  We used a Windows machine for the registration,
> > then hooked it up to a DLink router, without cloning any MAC address.
> > Now, I've replaced that DLink with an ipcop (Linux) box, and no problems.
> > I just got a new IP when I did that.
> > 
> 
> Same here -- you don't need to use the same MAC on the ethernet card 
> after registering, just the same cable modem.
> 
> 
> -Ben



Mike Neir
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http://mike.neir.org
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