[SWLUG] Colbalt qube 2

[Mark Fisher]

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On Tuesday 22 Jul 2003 1:58 pm, dot.dot.dotty.dot at ntlworld.com wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I am hoping that someone here has a little experance with the above bestie.
> I have just got one from someone i work with but i seem to be having
> problems with it. I cant seem to get an internet connection for it.
>
> My set up is as follows:-
>
> Cable Modem (an NTL one) thought a cat 5 patch to the secondary port on the
> Qube.

<wild thought .. possible solution ... >

Something which has bitten me a few times on NTL is their dhcp caching mac 
addresses.  Because of some mis-configuration a few years ago, it was 
possible to create sub-interfaces and request more than one IP address, then 
route these across your network.  </long story>

NTL got wise and changed the configuration of the DHCP severs so now each 
modem is bound to a particular mac address, if you were to plug the modem 
into a different machine/nic, then you would *not* get an IP.

After copious amounts of complaints I believe NTL have changed their policy 
slightly now, so that if you call them up and waste ~2hrs of your life on 
hold, they will add the second mac address for you.

Alternatively:

o put the old nic in the qube [note, ive never seen anything other than a pic 
so I dunno if you can]
o spoof the mac addr of the other nic [and make sure only one is used at any 
one time, else local communications will be royally screwed].

- -- 
	Mark
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