[NTLUG:Discuss] CONCLUSION:firewall won't talk to cable modem

[Jay Urish]

At 08:39 AM 6/4/00 , you wrote:



That sounds like a rig... The cable router is trash. AT&T needs to come and 
replace it.

>   If you can get the hardware MAC address, there is a way in the Linux
>ethernet drivers to pretend to be another hardware card. At that point,
>you should be able to use the laptop.  I don't remember how you do this,
>but I do know it is available in the drivers.
>
>On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Jay Urish wrote:
>
> > Hey Gang,,
> > Yesterday Kip and I figured out the problem. It turns out that the RCA
> > cable modem is madly in love with one ethernet card only. It wouldn't talk
> > to my PCMCIA laptop nic or the nic in the firewall. It would only talk to
> > the nic in his PC. So we mearly pulled that card and put it in the
> > firewall. The short of it is, his cable modem is lame.
> >
> >
> > Thanks for all of your suggestions folks!
>
>
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Jay Urish
Network Engineer - Dallas Wide Area Networking L.L.C
www.dalwan.net