Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 23:56:51 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mr. K." <bsd@a.servers.aozilla.com> To: David Kott <dakott@home.com> Cc: John Dowdal <jdowdal@destiny.erols.com>, High Voltage <zapper@idsmail.com>, FreeBSD-Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: @Home Connect. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910032353080.5825-100000@inbox.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910032108310.87389-100000@kott>
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On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, David Kott wrote: > On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, John Dowdal wrote: > > > One additional note for setting up @home, or most other cable modem > > services, (hmm .. any more words to throw in here for the search engine?) > > make sure you power cycle the cable modem when switching between two > > computers. When the cable modem powers up, it locks itself onto the MAC > > address of your ethernet card, and only listens to packets from that one > > address. If you go from one computer to another (or one ethernet card to > > another), you must power cycle the cable modem to reinitialize the MAC > > address, otherwise the connection will appear totally dead. Two friends > > of mine have wasted hours on this; lets get this archived to keep anyone > > else from wasting all this time. > > That seems odd to me. My roommate and I share the same cable modem. We > are not proxied as each of us have a distinct, and static IP. @Home > allows us to purchase additional IPs (up to 3 per household) to add > additional computers. > The modem is a Mot. Cybersurfer Wave. > I have seen this same thing before, with RCN cablemodem... I thought it was just myself being paranoid but aparently not if others have seen the same thing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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