Another nice benefit for using the Spoofed MAC addy is that if your Broadband provider disallows private networks. they ping and check the MAC against the manufacturers info they will get the Company that built your NIC card instead of Linksys (or whatever.) No letters yet for me and still purring along at 728K after 2.5 years if my ISP checks my MAC they get a 3Com ISA NIC Card from 1997, and they are aggressive about it too. You need to keep certain traffic types to a minimum also but that is a different discussion thread. :)
<---Begin Previous Message--- Sender: "Tim V(@DZ)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12:55:45 PM Tuesday, April 23, 2002 Subj: RE: Question on broadband IP routers using NAT Body: I know some resellers of the old @home ISP service had terrible hierarchies will regaurd to support phone calls. In my opinion if you aren't talking to somebody that actually had the capability of increasing CPE or in some other way releasing the MAC of your Ethernet card in about 20 minutes or so, call no-joy and trade your router in for an "EL CHEAPO" router like linksys etherfast that allows you to simply type in whatever MAC you would like the router to emulate. Then get the MAC of your card (ipconfig /all or whatever) and tell the router to use that MAC. Then the cable modem essentially thinks it's connected directly to your ethernet card....$0.02. -t -------------------------------------------------- ===== ================================================ Pursuant to 47 USC, unsolicited e-mail sent to any of my addresses is subject to an archival fee of not less than $500 U.S. per copy. E-mail received after any receipt of this notice implies acceptance of these terms. A copy of the specific law regarding this activity may be found at http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.shtml __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/
