Subject: Re: DHCP, Cable Modem and all that jazzzzz...help
To: Ben Zeller <zelr_ss@troi.cc.rochester.edu>
From: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/28/1999 23:35:10
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Ben Zeller wrote:
> This is just a shot in the dark, but...  Have you tried rebooting the cable
> modem?  I know that the Motorola units die when they sense a different MAC
> address from the computer.  If the unit works on one computer but not on
> another it _might_ be this...

Now that you mention this, I've heard that the LANcity modems that
mediaone uses are tied to 1 MAC address and if you switch network cards
you have to call them with the new MAC address.  I do know they recorded
my MAC address when doing the install.  Haven't verified this myself.

-Dan