Jay J <jay-tclug at 3pound.com> writes:

> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 08:39:14 -0600
> Scott Dier <dieman+tclug at ringworld.org> wrote:
> 
> > * Jay J <jay-tclug at 3pound.com> [010328 03:33]:
> > > My tip for new RR installs: If you kick the support tech out after they hand over the modem, be sure they've got your MAC address of the NIC you plan to connect to it. (oops .. :)
> > 
> > TW/RR isn't as anal as M1/RR.  Here, anything I can connect to the cable
> > modem (up to 5 devices) gets an IP.  A real IP no less :)
> 
> 
> :-) WTF, without paying for the 5+ "blah, blah, home LAN" solution?
> 
> I've got a 3Com 2940CMX (2-way external), single RJ45. They claim to keep a database (which they lost once) of modem <-> MAC addresses. When I switched from 1-way to 2, I booted the tech and proceeded to hook it up - no go, I call - have a chat about MAC addresses, and voila.

They do keep such a database, but NAT replaces the MAC address with that of
the firewall, so no problem  :)

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