On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Jason McArthur <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:21 AM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I've just spent a fruitless few hours attempting to change the >> MAC address on the ALIX WAN port - the /etc/config/network >> "option macaddr" command doesn't work > > A quick way to change the mac address of an interface is: > > # ifconfig eth0 down > # ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55 > # ifconfig eth0 up > > Perhaps resetting your cpe, then plug the alix board in so the cpe sees that > mac first and locks it in, might be a trick if changing mac addresses > doesn't work. The old Surfboard cable modems were like that. They only > allowed 1 device hooked up to it, so each time something new was attached, > you had to reset the modem.
I'm inclined towards believing this is the solution as well. Comcast, as near as I can tell, provisions the connection for your router's MAC address when the cable modem makes the connection. I'm guessing that Verizon works similarly, and that you need to break the connection for it to reprovision itself for a new router. -- Michael Weinberg President Personal Telco Project, Inc. A 501(c)(3) Non-Profit --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
