Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote: > I am using Hathway cable internet where they bind your ip settings to your > pc. If I unplug the lan cable from the pc and plug it into my laptop, I > cannot browse. They are using some sort of dhcp with a static ip (I know > that sounds funny - but that's what they say). > > Hathway now uses only dhcp with a binding to your mac id. Simply change the mac id of your laptop to copy the mac id of your pc's ethernet card. I have done this on some Hathway as well as cable connections in doze. Just look up google to find a way to change mac ids in Debian based systems as I haven't done it in Linux.
BTW, for those using Reliance's WiMax services, the procedure is the same too as now they have also started binding ips to mac ids. Just yesterday I solved a problem of no connection on an earlier working wireless router which even the Reliance engineer did not know how to solve. He got the connection up on the pc directly but on the router could not figure out why internet was not working. After copying the pc's mc id to the router, it was working smoothly. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
