On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 02:34, Ben Buxton wrote: > > Plus (for example) my cable modem requires DHCP for the head-end > to allow you thru, and its tied to a mac address - I'd rather > change mac address in software than deal with the horror of > having the cable company change their end when I upgrade. :)
This is what I thought Optus meant when they installed my cable modem. But think about it. The cable side has one mac address and the ethernet side has another. If they replace teh cable modem only then do you need to change you setup with your provider. I know this because I swapped the firewall NIC out for a PCI card after some crappy boot problems. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
