Re: Insight Broadband

[Chad Fendt <eldon_perry@yahoo.com>]

--- Todd Davis <tdavis@msfw.com> wrote:
> Of course, if you have already set up your account
> with the windows
> machine the easiest thing to do is just "clone" the
> MAC address of the
> Windows box.  
> 
> Most of the home "internet router" devices have the
> ability to clone the
> MAC.  Once you've put the device between your
> windows machine and the
> cable modem, pull up the web interface of the
> gateway (from the windows
> machine) and locate the option to clone the MAC
> address.  Some devices
> like the D-Link ones just have a clone button that
> will assign the MAC
> of the machine your using to browse.  Others, like
> Linksys models will
> have you key in the MAC address for the gateway to
> use.
> 
> Once you have assigned the new MAC to the gateway it
> is just a matter of
> telling the gateway to retrieve a new IP address
> (usually another
> button).

I may end up just buying a commercial router, but I'm
planning on using an old P2 I have and smoothwall
linux as a router/firewall and just buying a switch.  
The commercial router would probably be easier and
cheaper, since I have to buy another NIC, but this
seems like more fun.  
-Chad

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