A friend of mine rang up bigpond and got them to change the MAC adderss to
the address of the new NIC on their system, the techie there was happy to do
that for my friend and everything worked fine after a little tweaking with
DHCP etc
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris MacKenzie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 06:17 PM
To: Matt Allen
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Optus@home - the verdict?
Matt Allen wrote:
> I havent piped up about O@H yet, but i have a technical "in". My Fiance
> works there in the techincal arena.
>
> With O@H you dont need the little login script jobbie like you do with
> BPA, it uses your machine name and MAC address of the ethernet card for
> authentication. Thats why you need to use their card.
>
> Just thought Id clean that up.
IMHO That's incorrect.
When I first connected to O@H I was using Win98 and the optus supplied
NIC, After changing the NIC to a decent card (and installing Linux),
dhclient was issued with exactly the same address. Also the tech records
the MAC address of the nortel cable modem, so it must go by the modems
mac address and not the nic in the pc.
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Rgds,
Chris MacKenzie
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Windows 95/NT - 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell
for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating
system originally coded for a 4 bit
microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company
that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
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