Rik, The cable modem has it's own MAC address to authenticate with the ISP.
Earlier in my trouble shooting I tried what you suggested for setting the eth0 MAC address to the same MAC address of the NIC on a machine I have successfully used to assess the internet with the cable modem. But eth0 still fails to activate. The lease expiries within a few minutes of being disconnected from the internet and when I access the intenet again I get a new IP address. Ken --- Rik Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 12:34, Otto Haliburton wrote: > > > > > > -- > > I see that you had it working on a linux v6.2. > Use that IP address, and > > DNS. Also most ISP don't do this anymore but I > don't know who you have > > but your machine name might need to be a certain > name. This used to be > > used by the ISP to access the network, but is no > longer used unless you > > are within some other proxy in which case you will > need a valid machine > > name. > > > It sounds to me like you might be having a NIC MAC > address problem. > Contact your cable company and see if they use your > MAC address to > authenticate you to their system. That or the DHCP > lease uses your MAC > address and your lease has not expired > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
