From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Aug 3 15: 2:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9483C37B400; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 15:02:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net (flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1709143E4A; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 15:02:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0245.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.245] helo=mindspring.com) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17b6yk-0002J8-00; Sat, 03 Aug 2002 15:02:30 -0700 Message-ID: <3D4C52C2.D2434C7E@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 15:01:38 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andy Sparrow Cc: Bri , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dhcp problems with my ISP References: <20020803163411.A6A9B9A@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andy Sparrow wrote: > > Often, once the cable company sees a MAC address, it filters all > > other MAC addresses from getting a lease from your wire. > > This is true, broadly speaking. Or "broad-band-ly speaking"? > If they're mildly clueful (and probably if you convince them that you are), > you may be able to get them to either add multiple MAC addresses for your > account or simply relax the "single MAC" restriction if you explain that > you're experimenting with new equipment/configurations you wish to use, and > will be swapping equipment in and out (this is probably more likely with a > static IP, natch). AT&T Broadband Internet will not give you a static IP or permit you to run a server (they have blocking hardware in place) unless you sign up for "business service", which means you give them about four times the monthly fee vs. a "home" connection. Their technical FAQ is also enlighteining on their need for a MAC address: http://www.bbs.att.com/faqstech.shtml . Not that this matters, unless you are in some really restricted subset of the possible locations before @Home stupid'ed themselves out of business (Dallas, Denver, Boston, Jacksonville, Pittsburgh, Richmond, Ft. Lauderdale are the only supported areas, unless you are an already established customer, and sometimes not then). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message