[H-GEN] Motorola Cable modem

[Cunningham, Conor]

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Alan,

	Firstly, can you try deleting the PID of the NIC I mentioned
earlier? I would be interested to hear of the result. Secondly, Optus
authenticates based on your Modem's MAC address, but also on the MAC of
your external NIC. That is why when you change your MAC address of your
NIC with ifconfig or replace your NIC that you must unplug your modem
for ten seconds or so in order for your modem to reset and Optus to
gather new information. I forget the full details but it goes something
like that. I recall reading the full details online somewhere. You can
find the information on google.

Kind Regards,
 
Conor Cunningham
(07) 3898 6133

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From: Alan Harrison [mailto:agh at alanh.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, 12 November 2003 3:04 PM
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Subject: RE: [H-GEN] Motorola Cable modem

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Thanx Connor, for your thoughts.

I am going to re-install, this time with an earlier version of
Smoothwall.
I was just being lazy by not doing this in the first place!

I will also change 1 of the NIC cards, as at the moment I have 2
different
NIC's that both have RTL chipsets on.
I doubt that this has anything to do with the problem, but if it helps .
. .

Btw, how does Optus authenticate it's users? 
Is it by the MAC address of the modem?

-Alan.


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