On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 @ 11:26 PM, Jim Cunning wrote: >On Tuesday 23 January 2007 18:07, Greg Wallace wrote: >[...] >> >Ok. I found it. I picked "Use This Mac Address" which already had an >> >address in it but was grayed out until I selected it. Is that the Mac >> >Address of the modem, or of the router? >I don't know. You might be able to tell by comparing that value with the MAC >address displayed by 'ifconfig eth0' on your workstation (assuming you use >eth0 to connect to your LAN and router. Choosing the "Default MAC Address" >would definitely have used the router's MAC address on the WAN interface.
I think this means use the router's mac address. >> >Thanks, >> >Greg Wallace >> >> I've been doing some googling on this and I'm still a bit confused. When >> you choose, for example, "Use This Mac Address", if that's not the mac >> address that the modem picked earlier (from, say, a different router) will >> it be accepted, or wouldn't you still have to re-boot the modem to get it >> to use that new address? >Probably the latter. Unless you have all routers that you might from time to >time connect to your cable modem using the same MAC address on the WAN >interface, you'll have to reset the modem on each change. Right. >> Or am I still not understanding this process? >You're getting there. In your case, this is probably just a learning exercise Yes. I learned a lot from this. >but not really necessary, since you were able to connect to your ISP after >resetting the modem. This feature of most routers is essential, however, >when an ISP requires that packets arriving at the cable modem be from some >known (to them) MAC address, often one registered with them when signing up >for their service. This way it looks like the original computer NIC is still >connected directly to the modem, even though there's a router between the two. So that would be when you'd choose Use This Mac Address and key in the one provided by the ISP, right? >Jim Cunning Greg Wallace -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
