DD-WRT and Cox-- any warnings?

[Mike Garfias]

I've always been able to power cycle the modem to get a new router to  
work.  I think the modem reports the first MAC it sees, and then can  
resend that if its rebooted.

On Jun 2, 2008, at 8:50 PM, Dan Lund wrote:

> You'll probably have to deal with cloning the current mac on the WAN  
> port.
> I had to with my Belkin, since Cox seems to be doing some twisted form
> of MAC checks.
>
> I'm not saying in all cases it does that since I'm not everywhere and
> dealing with every customer since I'm just one customer.  However,
> I've been a customer of Cox for like 7-8 years and have never had this
> problem until 1 year 1/2 ago when I connected in a new house I
> purchased.  I just dealt with them by initiating a connection with a
> laptop while talking to the nasty tech on the line.  After that, I
> just cloned the mac of the nic from that laptop on the Belkin I was
> going to use.  After that, all fine.
> I know I've spouted about this before, so I'm just throwing this out
> again in this situation to inform you :)
>
> --Dan
>
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 7:56 PM,  <fouldragon at aol.com> wrote:
>> Well, I bought one of those $15 bargain Airlink101 routers from Fry's
>> in an abortive attempt to fix a poor 802.11g connectivity situation.
>> As it turned off, it was something else.  Not wanting to consider  
>> it a
>> write-off, I installed the new DD-WRT v24 firmware on it.
>>
>> However, before I drop it in (replacing a second-hand stock firmware
>> Linksys WRT54G which I'm powering off a 12v laptop brick I'm really
>> coveting for another project) I'm wondering if there are any  
>> settings I
>> need to adjust to avoid offending the local ISP (in my case, Cox)  
>> -- I
>> assume that the 'info page' and 'remote management' features might
>> count as forbidden 'servers' to them, so I already turned them off,  
>> but
>> what else?
>>
>> It's nice having something I can telnet into (since I don't spend
>> enough time at a putty window at work)
>
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Dan Lund
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