On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 19:11 -0500, Wakko Warner wrote: > David Hollis wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 12:44 -0500, Wakko Warner wrote: > > > This might be a stupid question, but you aren't changing the MAC address > > > of > > > the nic at one place and not at the other? > > > > > > Not really changing MAC addresses, though it does bring up a good point: > > I've often found that you need to recycle the cable modem on RoadRunner > > when you connect a different device otherwise it wont give you an > > address via DHCP. Part of their way of making you pay more money so you > > can have multiple PCs on the connection I suppose. > > Well the reason I mention this is because I wanted to use a USB nic to do my > internet connectivity. My ISP's DSLAM doesn't pickup on new MAC addresses > for atmost around 20 minutes (something about the arp cache which didn't > make any sense). I figure I'd change the MAC address to the one that my > current nic used to get around that. I never could figure out why it didn't > work. I thought either my DSL modem didn't like it or something. I never > thought that by changing it's MAC that the nic itself would stop working. I > guess I can't use this thing for bridging either. I did find out as long as > the first 24-bits remain the same (vendor's code), it would work. > > I just noticed the problem you were having and thought about my experience > with a USB nic. > I don't think that the usbnet driver handles changing the nic (at least for the ax88172 based devices). I can't say that I've tried it myself.
-- David Hollis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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