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Thats what I though too. What happens if your NIC goes bad and you
replace it. I didn't think you had to contact COMCAST.
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Naresh Reddy
nyg102@psu.edu
http://www.personal.psu.edu/nyg102
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Doug Crompton wrote:
> All this talk about MAC addresses. I do not see this happenning with
> comcast at all. Last night I switched between DHCP on a Win2K box and a
> Redhat Linux box and after reseting (turning the power off and on, on the
> newer modems) it worked just fine. Why should comcast care about your
> ethernet card! Come on they are stupid but not that stupid. You think you
> cannot replace a card in your computer if it goes bad? IT is MS and XP
> that screw you on that with their silly registration!
>
> Doug
>
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 05:43:20PM -0500, Naresh Reddy wrote:
> > > I am sorry, why are you trying to change a MAC address again? I lost a lot
> > > of my PLUG messages because I had a flaw in "procmail".
> >
> > To make Comcast give him an IP addr from a windows machine, then
> > later make it believe that a Linux machine was the same computer
> > (presuming they check only the MAC addr) so that he could get on
> > with life having his private network still touch with the Internet.
> >
> > --
> > gabriel rosenkoetter
> > gr@eclipsed.net
> >
>
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