Manual Registration Comcast High Speed Internet in Fedora 4

[Mike McCarty]

Neil Cherry wrote:
> Florin Andrei wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 18:26 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>>
>>> Depends. The first modem I got from comcast wouldn't do squat until
>>> I went through the 'registration cd install'.  Trying to get a dhcp 
>>> lease
>>> from Linux did nothing.  After installing it on a windows box, Linux
>>> was able to get a lease.
>>
>>
>> If I'm not mistaken, Comcast remembers your last MAC address and won't
>> let you change the network card - if you register with one card, it
>> won't work with another (unless you change the MAC).
> 
> 
> The modem is that thing that remembers, the fix is to power down
> the modem and power it up. Then the first MAC to hit it will be the
> one it remembers. That's why it's a good idea to have a NAT box
> sit between your home network and the cable (there are other benefits
> too).
> 

I use a router for that. One big advantage is that my IP ports
are all stealth, except for the e-mail challenge, which is
not stealth, but is closed.

Mike
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