AT&T Broadband

[jerry]

In my 3 years and 3 different addresses in Cambridge - I went from a single
machine w/ a NIC to a UMAX router then finally to the current Netgear
router.

I kind of figured that AT&T can't see anything beyond my router and almost
gotten into an argument with the AT&T guy on the phone over this. His final
answer was "well, we need both MAC addresses." I should have just made up an
address and gave it ot him; what I did do was fed him the MAC address on the
NIC

I had seen the routers that can "spoof" the MAC address of a machine on the
LAN, but since we often upgrade / swap boxes around (lost 2 during the move)
I hate to have to talk to AT&T if the source machine of the cloned MAC
address needs to be taken down.

Although I must say that the offer of the cheaper "Basic Installation" was a
refreshing change, since my last 2 moves within Cambridge as well as the
first setup incurred charges of $75 each even though we did most of the
work.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Feldman" <gaf at blu.org>
To: <discuss at blu.org>; "junk" <junkforjerry at hotmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: AT&T Broadband


> True, but most do. I know the Linksys as well as the Netgear do that. The
latest firmware from
> Linksys simplifies things.
> On 14 Feb 2002 at 15:45, will wrote:
>
> >
> > But not all routers do that.  The folks I've talked to don't really
> > understand what they're saying--they're probably just going off of
> > problem-solving worksheets or something.
> >
> > I'm just telling you what they told me.  She was really huffy about it
> > too.  They're a difficult bunch to talk to.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > >
> > > That is why you set the Router's WAN MAC address to the primary PC MAC
> > > address. If there is a problem with the router, just take it offline.
> > >
> > >
> > > On 14 Feb 2002 at 15:30, will wrote:
> > > >
> > > > They want both your router MAC and your NIC MAC because they don't
support
> > > > routers and if they have to trouble-shoot your connection (which
they
> > > > couldn't do on a perfect day anyways), they tell you to take your
router
> > > > out of the picture.  They privision both MAC addresses for this
> > > > possibility.
> > > >
> >
>
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