On Wednesday, January 24, 2007 @ 2:48 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Greg Wallace
[01-24-07 14:57]: [...] I can hook up a new device to my modem with no problem, as long as I power cycle the modem first. Apparently, from some of the notes I'm reading, some ISPs lock you in to a single mac address, as you're describing. Not the case with my ISP or, apparently, with James Knott's.
To further obfuscate the situation, my roadrunner uses the modem's mac address. If I change modems, I have to landline roadrunner and report the new mac address from the modem. Changing routers requires nothing, not even rebooting the modem.
Interesting. If you were using a modem like mine, would you have the worst of both worlds, or is your router somehow able to overcome the fact that the modem would normally only talk to a single router? Greg W. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org