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- <li><em>date</em>: Fri Jun 11 12:13:37 2004</li>
- <li><em>from</em>: hbbs at comcast.net (hbbs at comcast.net)</li>
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The funny thing was, Knoppix *used* to work just fine here. Perhaps Knology has instituted a MAC check more recently.
> It's not at all uncommon for cable providers to lock down access to the
> modem from a single MAC address. That's why a lot of broadband routers
> have a "MAC Clone" feature where you can either gather a MAC from the
> current administrative connection, or type in whatever you like.
>
> That doesn't totally explain the Knoppix situation, but it might.
>
>
> --Matt
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hbbs at comcast.net [<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:hbbs";>mailto:hbbs</a> at comcast.net]
> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 12:01 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Cable Modem Strangeness On The Road
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>
> I'm at the in-laws' in Columbus, GA where Knology supplies the
> broadband. My nephew's WinXP box is wired straight to a 2com "sharkfin"
> cable modem, and its Ethernet card is set up to use DHCP for obtaining
> IP address and DNS address. The weird thing is that if I boot to a
> Knoppix CD, I get no connection, and my Linux laptop, which works just
> fine with DHCP supplied locally in the house, also gets no connection.
> Even if I set the IP address, gateway, mask, broadcast, etc. manually, I
> get nothing - I can't even ping the cable modem using the gateway
> address. The only thing I can get is a link light on the sharkfin (but
> I can't make it blink). What's up with this?
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