[ale] HELP NEEDED - Comcast cable Modem and linux-centric home network

[Pete Hardie]

I think I can have my router spoof the PC's MAC.  ANother suggestion
for the list.

The wifi has no option to turn it off, as far as I could tell - I can
set SSID, security mode, password, DHCP range and lease time, and
channel, but nothing to mute the radio....


Pete Hardie
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On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> The residential boxes are designed for a single customer PC to be
> attached. If you want more AND you want it to "Just Work", get a small
> router that supports MAC spoofing and connect all your PC stuff to it
> using it's ports and not the box from comcast.
>
> Most likely, the port/MAC combo is cached until reboot. Wireless is
> different and should support multiple devices (poorly). You should
> have access to the box enough to set your own wireless password. If
> so, you should be able to turn off the radio as well.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does anyone know if which port on the cable modem matters to the
>> device?  I.E. if I plugged a WIndows box into port one, I can't use
>> that one for a different box without clearing the MAC?
>>
>> Pete Hardie
>> --------
>> Better Living Through Bitmaps
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:23 AM, mike at trausch.us <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
>>> On 07/19/2012 09:15 AM, Erik Mathis wrote:
>>>> I would try to spoof the MAC of the windows box, if thats what you
>>>> used to setup the service with.
>>>
>>> The SMC boxes have a cap of like 100 MAC addresses or something like
>>> that.  (More than you'd typically have in a home or small office network
>>> segment, anyway.)  The fact that they have four ports means that they
>>> just provide a network gateway (with all the bells and whistles thereof,
>>> except the important ones that actually matter).
>>>
>>>         --- Mike
>>>
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