A nice thing about cloning the MAC, though, is that if you do it before 
power cycling the modem and within your current DHCP lease, you can keep 
your old IP. I had the same IP for ~5 years because of thise (then lost 
it after a service outage that extended past the lease)

-David

Mike Garfias wrote:
> 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@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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