Baffled by a Cable Modem

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 14:33:19 -0500,
  "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > Add a line like the following to the ifcfg-eth? file (and you may need to
> > be running the network service as I don't know if network manager uses
> > that info):
> > 
> > MACADDR=DE:C1:A5:51:F1:ED
> > 
> > Except you want to use the mac address of the windows box.
> > 
> > You'll want the windows box off the network when you try this.
> > 
> You will also want to comment out the HWADDR=<something> line, or
> you may get strange results.

It works fine for me. I like to leave that in as I have some machines with
multiple nics and that makes sure that they consistantly get associated
with the same interface.

What problems have you seen?