[Gllug] Setting up ntl cable modem/DHCP?

[Martin Stevens]

On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 10:53:45AM +0100, Kim Hawtin wrote:
> > I think I could be tantalisingly close to getting a cable modem up and
> > running with my Debian box (Woody on a Compaq Professional Workstation
> > 5000 PPro SMP) if I could just get my DHCP client to talk to my cable
> > operator's DHCP server.
> 
> ok, im using a cable modem attaached to my debian box, and i use
> pump (dhcp client) to get the lease. but i have to spoof the
> hardware address of the network card that is in my laptop, because
> that was the first machine to be setup using it.
> 
> the cable modem appears not to be able to assign a dhcp lease to any
> other MAC than the one it was setup with...
> 
> if i set my eth0 to 192.168.1.11 and point a web browser to
> 192.168.1.100, IIRC, then i can get a page with all the details
> about how its setup... like what the MAC is that its set to give the
> dhcp lease to.

I'm using blueyonder, and they have a selfcare webpage that lets you 
assign up to five mac addressess that can be used on the conection.

However you do need to reboot/power cycle the modem to force the modem
to check which mac address is in current use.

That's using a Surfboard SB4100 cable modem though

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