[NCLUG] dhcp and @home

[Daniel Herrington]

I don't think this is the case with @ Home, because when they
installed my cable modem, they installed it directly to my Windows
box.  After they left, I switched the cable modem connection to my
Coyote Linux box, with DHCP, and saw no problems.

Daniel



=> Replying to J. Paul Reed's message, "Re: [NCLUG] dhcp and @home" (Mar 16):
 > On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Charles Clarke wrote:
 > Out of curiousity, does @home know or care anything about your ethernet
 > card's MAC address?
 > 
 > Charter Communications cable modem service actually binds to the MAC
 > address of the first ethernet card it hears chiming in on the network...
 > you have to call the NOC to get them to reset it.