From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 27 20: 8:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (cm-24-246-28-166.toney.mediacom.ispchannel.com [24.246.28.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A07FD37B4C5 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:08:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAS48fS48153; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:08:41 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200011280408.eAS48fS48153@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Jeremy Vandenhouten Cc: "Robret Schilling" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: DHCP problem? In-reply-to: Message from Jeremy Vandenhouten of "Mon, 27 Nov 2000 08:49:31 CST." <3c95063c5a5e.3c5a5e3c9506@marquette.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:08:41 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeremy Vandenhouten writes: > This question comes up every so often. I think the last time was about > a month ago. I remember someone saying that you have to inform your > cable modem provider with the MAC address of your external card, so > that they can add it to their database. Cable modems have a MAC address of their own. That's all my installers wanted. Once they have that I'm sure they can monitor the MAC addresses they see connected to it but am not sure why they would care but for nosyness. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message