Adelphia Powerlink

[Dennis Ruzeski]

To clarify- That's not really changing the mac address of the router. It's just telling the router to alter the outgoing mac address in the packet headers it sends. MAC addresses are the only way for the cable company to track the number of users behind a router running nat and lately adelphia has been finicky about things like that.



-----Original Message-----
From: Brett Hamann [mailto:brett at consumersbeverages.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 3:02 PM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: Adelphia Powerlink



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom McKim" <mckimt at yahoo.com>
To: <nflug at nflug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: Adelphia Powerlink


> 
> > I had the same thing happen with the same router.
> > 
> > My only solution was to change the MAC address of
> > the WAN port of the router
> > to match the MAC address of my desktop's NIC (which
> > worked).
> > 
> > I know that is a bit extreme, but it worked for me
> > and I haven't changed it
> > back! That was about a year ago.  Just an option if
> > all else fails!
> > 
> > Brett
> > 
> 
> You can do that???  I always thought the MAC Address
> was hard coded by the manufacturer...
> 
> 
> =====
> Tom McKim, MCSE
> Network Administrator
> Niagara Chocolates
> 3500 Genesee Street
> Buffalo, New York 14225
> tmckim at niagarachocolates.com
> mckimt at yahoo.com
 
Oh yeah...It's called MAC Cloning (look for it in the Advanced Setup!)

Brett