[ale] Bye-bye, Telocity/DirectTV

[jhubbs at telocity.com]

On Tue, 23 October 2001, "Stephen VanDyke" wrote:

> 
> AT&T grabs the MAC address from whatever NIC gets installed first. My
> roommate and I tried to get them to change it when we were trying to move
> our connection to a linux router. We ended up getting a linksys router that
> can fake the mac address to the gateway device and things were solved. I'm
> pretty sure Linux can fake it too but we could never get it to work.

My out-facing NIC in my firewall is an ISA-bus NE2000 card that I don't expect to have to change out.  However - do you know if the cable modem runs in duplex, not that it would necessarily matter very much?

- Jeff



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