Am Mi, den 31.03.2004 schrieb Homer Sapions um 05:35:
Thanks Alexander, I may contact you again to help with testing
directly. The
problem is that my ISP has bound my IP address to the MAC address of the
first PC I attached. I can get it changed, but it may take 4 - 8 hours, so I
have just set the linksys to masquerade as the first PCs MAC address. If I
now bypass the linksys, the cable modem will see the MAC address of my Linux
server and not allow me access to the internet. I have another idea based on
what somebody else (Bob?) suggested. I have a hub. I will disconnect one of
my Windows PCs from the Linksys and connect it to the hub. Then I will
connect the hub to the linksys incomig port so that the PC will effectively
be on the outside of the LinkSys. That way I can eliminate the linksys from
the equation and narrow it to just the cable modem and the ISP. As I said, I
don't know of a way to reconfigure the cable modem, if it is even possible.
I had never considered that as an option. It is a Motorola Surfboard SB4100
- I'll see if I can find any books I got with it, or search online.
You can easily modify the MAC address of your NIc with following
command:
ifconfig hw ether 00:D0:B6:D2:14:4E
(MAC above is a sample)
Alexander
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