Most, if not all, cable modems record the MAC address of the ethernet card
of the computer connected to it when it powers up.  Thus, if you wish to
switch the cable modem between computers, power the cable modem off for a
couple of minutes, switch computers, and power back on.

Eric Feldhusen	

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:48:34 -0500
 Ron Landrus wrote:

> I need some suggestions on connecting to a cable modem, it may just be
> that it is stubborn in that it will only talk to the first computer that
was
> connected when the modem was registered on the cable network.
> 
> Any other computer I try will not pass tcp/ip. (different machine IP?)
>