Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 19:09:35 +0000 From: Alan Clegg <abc@bsdi.com> To: Caleb Walker <caleb.walker@home.com> Cc: Alejandro Heyworth <heyworth@digitaldisciples.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cable modem install.... Message-ID: <20000831190935.A67018@diskfarm.firehouse.net> In-Reply-To: <00083111524402.00252@butthead.walker>; from caleb.walker@home.com on Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 11:50:19AM -0700 References: <v03110700b5d341f26a3a@[172.142.154.29]> <00083111524402.00252@butthead.walker>
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Unless the network is lying to me again, Caleb Walker said: > RoadRunner is much different than @home. When they came and installed > your cable service they took down the mac address of the NIC that was > on the machine they put it on. They use the mac address to give out ip > address with dhcp. Really all you need to do is take the NIC out of > the machine that they put it on and put that NIC in the machine you > want it to work on. No, they took down the MAC address of the "Surfboard" or whatever device they handed you, *NOT* the NIC in the PC. I've switched ethernet cards quite a number of times since I got my roadrunner service and everything works just fine. AlanC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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