On Wednesday, January 24, 2007 @ 6:20 AM, James Knott wrote: <snip>
Many systems, including the one I'm on, will only work with one MAC. However, changing it only requires turning the modem off for a few minutes and then on again.
Apparently, that's the way mine works. I had turned the old router on and off a dozen times without re-booting the modem. However, switching in the new router (with a new mac address) wouldn't work with out re-booting the modem. I've been speculating as to why the modem needs to capture that mac address. I guess if you had some sort of switch where you were introducing different devices to the modem than the one it originally captured the mac address off off it could possibly cause it to malfunction, so it captures that address to make sure it will only need to deal with the device that it initially synced with. Otherwise, it would try to interface with every device switched to it in the exact same manner and that might not work. Just a wag on my part. I really don't know why it has the one mac address limit. Greg Wallace -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org