Re: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router?

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Len Lawrence wrote:
 Further to that. The router is now plugged in and running fine.
 Apart from service network restart there was very little action
 required. The hostname reverted to localhost.domain so /etc/hosts
 needed to be modified, and that was that. I am impressed.
 I did not bother to clone the MAC address. Using the router MAC
 allows for more flexibility on the LAN side without bothering
 Telewest.
 Thanks again for all the advice.
It is nice that you didn't need to clone the MAC address.  But I feel I 
should clear something up.  Cloning the MAC address has no affect on the 
local lan.  What it does is change the WAN interface MAC address to 
match the computer doing the configuration.  (Or the MAC address you 
specify on some routers.)  What this does is make the router look like 
it is the same network card that used to be connected to the modem 
before you installed the router.

Conputer NIC 
---------------------------------------------------------------- Cable Modem
00-E0-29-6A-C6-33                                                                                 
00-25-EF-0D-AC-10

Computer NIC ----------------------------  Router 
---------------------------- Cable Modem
00-E0-29-6A-C6-33       00-30-BD-C7-48-06    00-E0-29-6A-C6-33    
00-25-EF-0D-AC-10

I hope my crude drawing helps...
Mikkel
--
   Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

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