From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 12:22:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.occa.home.com (ha1.rdc2.occa.home.com [24.2.8.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D09737B42C for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 12:22:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from butthead.walker ([24.177.2.144]) by mail.rdc2.occa.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20000831192222.TCCD11948.mail.rdc2.occa.home.com@butthead.walker>; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 12:22:22 -0700 From: Caleb Walker To: Alan Clegg Subject: Re: cable modem install.... Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 12:16:05 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Alejandro Heyworth , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <00083111524402.00252@butthead.walker> <20000831190935.A67018@diskfarm.firehouse.net> In-Reply-To: <20000831190935.A67018@diskfarm.firehouse.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00083112221103.00252@butthead.walker> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- When I had RoadRunner/MediaOne they took down the mac of the cable modem and the nic in my system. I cahnged nics and told them about the new adress on the nic but they wrote it down wrong. There was no way in hell i was getting an address unless they knew what nic I had. If they dont use NIC address authentication then what do they use? @home uses a way that the dhclient has to send, along with its address request, a host name. That host name is registered with @home that goes with that address. That is also why with Roadrunner they change your address every month but with @home that cant with the method of authentication they use. Also with Roadrunner they have a service plan that you can register multiple addresses with them in the case that you have a home network. This of coarse costs more. > 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 -- Thank You, Caleb Walker (310) 519-8359 (310) 753-8668 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: FuWj+66+kH2m2dd8Jv2W+7BtUWQlT+co iQA/AwUBOa6wY+ePhvvqImYFEQK7FQCdGLAUlu/in6UcsIciwX5c/6F+sbAAoMUA jVK/YGzOC5frdnvUNDcK3vnx =i4Zg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message