[NCLUG] dhcp and @home

[Prescott Oelke]

 Yeah I think they do it by machine name (xxxx.ftclns1.co.home.com). As long
as you have the correct machine and domain name they don't care what
ethernet card you use. I can see some potential for misuse in that.

Prescott

On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 09:59:24 -0700 (MST), nclug at nclug.org wrote:

>  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.
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