[CLUE-Tech] cable modem question

[Jeffery Cann]

On Saturday 13 July 2002 09:43 pm, Brandon N wrote:
>
> To the best of my knowledge ATT does not hash the MAC addresses, I use
> three different computers and interchange them frequently.  I've never
> had a problem with doing that.  It's the modems themselves that have to
> be registered.

When my three year old modem (bridge) died, they came out and replaced it.  
They could not get my router's MAC to register, so I did it with my wife's NT 
box directly plugged to the cable modem.  Then, I later plugged it back into 
my router.  

The tech told me that I would have to re-register the MAC address for the 
router since it's different than the one in the NT NIC.  However, this was 
not the case and the new modem been rock-solid since.

The interesting thing is that the techs cannot answer many of our technical 
questions, such as 'Does AT&T store MAC addresses?'.  Maybe they should write 
a Linux User FAQ that will satisfy our collective curiosities?

Jeff