On Tuesday, Nov 12, 2002, at 21:20 US/Pacific, Laurent Daudelin wrote: > I'm no network expert but from the message the original poster is > mentioning, it looks like Earthlink is able to tell that their servers > are > talking to a router, hence the saying "they don't support home > networks". > There must be something to do, but since I never faced that problem, I > really don't know...
They associate the MAC (hardware) address of the computer with the assigned IP. This can be inadvertent or intentional. If it's inadvertent, the MAC address is just cached; if you leave everything disconnected for a few (I'd give it 20) minutes the ARP cache will time out and you'll be fine. If it's intentional, they track it to prevent the end device from being switched. Either way, as a workaround many popular routers offer the ability to force, or spoof, a different MAC address. You can get the MAC address of your Pismo as the "Ethernet address:" in System Preferences; Network (that's OS X, I don't do OS 9). Copy that into the appropriate location in the router and the ISP won't know the difference. KeS -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:G-Books@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:G-Books-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:G-Books-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
