On Thursday, Oct 21, 2004, at 10:42 US/Central, J. Philip Miller wrote:
Initially Charter would pick up the mac address of the first device that it
saw on a particular connection. It then would only recognize that device.
I learned this when I tested first with my laptop and then put a Linksys
router/wireless access point in and it would not work until I cloned the mac
address of the laptop on the router.
Last night my router lost all of its configuration and in getting it back
working it appeared that Charter was no longer requiring the cloned mac
address.
Your mileage may vary.
That's consistent with what Charter told me last night. In brief, the modem remembers the MAC address of the first device that connects to it (e.g. computer, router, WAP, etc.) and will only allow that device to connect in the future. However, you can force the modem to forget the MAC by power cycling the modem, waiting about 30 seconds before you turn it back on.
My notes:
http://www.cwelug.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?CharterLinux
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