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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