[PLUG] Ubuntu And Comcast Digital Cable?

Aaron Ten Clay aaron at madebyai.com
Sun Feb 11 22:40:12 UTC 2007


Russell Senior writes: 

>>>>>> "m0gely" == m0gely  <m0gely at telestream.com> writes:
> 
> Keith> Comcast looks for a specific MAC address for one machine on the
> Keith> customer end. 
> 
> m0gely> It's the modem's MAC, not the machine behind it. 
> 
> I have seen cases where a box was plugged directly into the cable
> modem, and then we wanted to plug in a wireless router or firewall or
> something in between (these were not PTP installs, I hasten to add).
> No workie until we used the silly router firmware to pretend to have
> the first box's MAC address.  Then it worked.  That sounds like
> Comcast looking for the machine's MAC rather than the modem's. 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Russell Senior, Secretary
> russell at personaltelco.net

Powercycling the modem should solve this problem, since the modem will 
forget what MAC(s) it has seen and is allowing to access the bridge.



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