AT&T Broadband

[lists at prwdot.org (Peter R. Wood (Lists))]

If they don't charge you any extra, give them the MAC of both your router
and a NIC on your internal LAN.  The cable modem will recognize either MAC
and assign it an IP.  If you ever call them for diagnostics, they may ask
you to disconnect the router and plug the cablemodem directly into a NIC on
your internal LAN.

The other alternative is to do what I did: set up your router to clone the
MAC address of a NIC on your internal LAN. That way you can just unplug/plug
when you have to do diagnostics, and it all looks the same to ATT.

Peter
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----- Original Message -----
From: "junk" <junkforjerry at hotmail.com>
To: <discuss at blu.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 4:14 PM
Subject: AT&T Broadband


> I have been a customer of AT&T Broadband / MediaOne in Cambridge since
1999.
>
> I have just moved to a different AT&T Broadband city and had just had a
> 'Basic Installation' done - this is where the cable contractor just brings
> in the line from the pole, check for a good connection to the modem and
then
> leave. When I called in for activation, I was asked for the MAC address
for
> my NIC. When I told them I was using a router - the guy at AT&T said that
> then he would need the MAC addresses of the NIC as well as the router.
>
> My question is this:
>
> Is the AT&T person simplly just needed to fill out all the blanks on his
> form, or is AT&T now doing something with the MAC address of the NIC? I
have
> been swapping differenet boxes running all sorts of OS's behind the router
> without any problem.