[NTLUG:Discuss] @Home connection problems. Can't even ping.

[Jay Urish]

At 08:04 AM 5/25/00 , you wrote:
>No, the card in the Windows '98 machine was my card.  Since it was already
>installed for my house network, they just reconfigured it. and handed me a
>new Ethernet card, since an Ethernet card was part of the installation.
>
>Are you suggesting we take the Ethernet card out of the windows machine and
>use it in the linux machine to connect to the cable modem, since it may use
>the MAC address of the Ethernet card.?
>
>Cycling power on the cable modem does not help.  I thought it may cause the
>cable modem to get a new MAC address.

If the cable modem is actually a router (as I suspect) the MAC address 
would be fixed.




>Kip
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Jason Fortezzo <fortezzo at directlink.net>
>To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 11:19 PM
>Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] @Home connection problems. Can't even ping.
>
>
> > At 07:24 PM 5/24/00, you wrote:
> >  >The Linux box is planned to be a fire wall, and has two Ethernet cards.
> >  >Both successfully ping my internal net when they are plugged into the
> >  >internal network. When I try to ping the external network no response
>from
> >  >any address or either card.
> >
> > When I lived in College Station, TCA Cable (now Cox) required us to
>furnish
> > the MAC address for each card we were using.  Was the card in the Windoze
>'98
> > machine furnished by @Home?
> >
> >
> > Jason Fortezzo
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Jay Urish
Network Engineer - Dallas Wide Area Networking L.L.C
www.dalwan.net