On 09-06-19 02:06:38, Don Vogt wrote: > > > > > Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:40:25 -0400 > From: Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Baffled by a Cable Modem solved > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: <1245350425.19768.0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On 09-06-18 11:36:02, John Aldrich wrote: > > > My guess... your ISP had something messed up and just waiting fixed > > it. :-) Even if you called them, they probably would have denied > > there was anything wrong. Or, they might have admitted they had an > > outage or something. You never know. :-) > > > I did call and when I said that it worked OK in Windows, she lost > interest. When I said my problem was in using Linux, she didn't hang > up > - but her brain did. It was much as I expected since they don't claim > to support Linux > > . > > As others have said, you are probably only allowed one IP address > > issued to one MAC address, which timed out overnight, and your > attempt > > to use a different MAC address worked in the morning. If you only > ever > > have one machine connected to a network, you can give them both the > > same MAC address, as was already suggested to you. That won't work > f > > you wish to use more than one machine on the network (and Internet) > at > > the same time, in which case you should get a small home NAT box / > > Router and configure it to present the expected MAC address (or > just > > > wait overnigth again). > > As far as I understand it ( and I don't claim to ), I used the same > MAC address all the time. At least I never changed it. Each machine has its own MAC address. At the bottom of your message I see that you using one machine booted sometimes in MSWindows and sometimes in Linux. Even in that case is is /possible/ that the MAC addresses are different, as they can be set. > I have another computer, ( sort of a standby) that doesn't play in > this recent activity. But I used to exchange the ethernet cable from > the DSL modem between the two computers (rebooting each time, and had > no problems. Of course that is a different network with different > policies probably. Yes. That one probably used PPPoE, which identifies by username and password, not DHCP, which identifies by MAC address. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
