[Nottingham] Help wanted in Hucknall

Paul Sladen notlug at paul.sladen.org
Wed Dec 21 12:37:42 GMT 2005


On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Chris Booth wrote:
> > When I did this some years ago, they used to lock the MAC address that
> > the router would talk to as the first one it finds.
> Change the mac address on the Linux box to match the mac address of the Windows box.

Or just reboot the cable-modem.

It is the cable-modem that learns and restricts itself to the first MAC
address it sees, not the cable-company.

If you swap the computer connected to the cable-mode, power-cycle!

	-Paul
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