For what it's worth, I move my laptop between work, MediaOne at home, and another
cable modem
provider up in Maine just using the "ifconfig" command - because it lets you fake the
MAC address:
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 hw ether a1b2c3d4e5f6
I think the success of this depends on the device driver; I use a Xircom PCMCIA card,
with the
pcmcia-cs driver that came with RedHat.
Uri Guttman wrote:
>
> >>>>> "RB" == Richard Borroff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> RB> I've got the Netgear version of the same box. One of the things I
> RB> liked is that it will spoof the MAC address of a connected
> RB> computer as the WAN MAC address. This can be useful with
> RB> Mediaone, if you've already connected with a single system - they
> RB> don't need to know about the router.
>
> mediaone now allows 2 or 3 mac addresses, any of which can be the
> current active one. this was for laptop owners who wanted to be able to
> switch out which cpu was on the net without calling mediaone each
> time. when i installed my linksys i just added its mac address and
> didn't delete the one from the pc which used to be my gateway.
>
> uri
>
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