From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 3 20:57:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from inbox.org (inbox.org [216.22.145.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4EF514CF9 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 20:57:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd@a.servers.aozilla.com) Received: from localhost (bsd@localhost) by inbox.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA06084; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 23:56:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 23:56:51 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mr. K." X-Sender: bsd@inbox.org To: David Kott Cc: John Dowdal , High Voltage , FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: @Home Connect. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, David Kott wrote: > On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, John Dowdal wrote: > > > One additional note for setting up @home, or most other cable modem > > services, (hmm .. any more words to throw in here for the search engine?) > > make sure you power cycle the cable modem when switching between two > > computers. When the cable modem powers up, it locks itself onto the MAC > > address of your ethernet card, and only listens to packets from that one > > address. If you go from one computer to another (or one ethernet card to > > another), you must power cycle the cable modem to reinitialize the MAC > > address, otherwise the connection will appear totally dead. Two friends > > of mine have wasted hours on this; lets get this archived to keep anyone > > else from wasting all this time. > > That seems odd to me. My roommate and I share the same cable modem. We > are not proxied as each of us have a distinct, and static IP. @Home > allows us to purchase additional IPs (up to 3 per household) to add > additional computers. > The modem is a Mot. Cybersurfer Wave. > I have seen this same thing before, with RCN cablemodem... I thought it was just myself being paranoid but aparently not if others have seen the same thing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message