Re: [PLUG] Comcast Cable modem & DHCP

[Carl Johnson <cjohnson19791979@gmail.com>]

I've never needed to wait that long. 
 





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"Robert Spangler" <mlists@zoominternet.net> wrote:

>On Saturday 11 December 2010 09:51, Julien Vehent wrote:
>
>>  The linksys was bought independently from comcast, and comcast
>should
>>  not be aware of its MAC, that's why I was puzzled by the DHCP
>>  restriction. Turns out it was only a matter of restarting the modem.
>
>The Comcast modem is only a bridge to the Comcast network.  They are
>aware of 
>what is connected to their device and it will cache the mac address of
>the 
>device that is connected to it.  When you change the connected device
>you 
>need to do the following to flush the mac address.
>
>Power down the modem and then un-plug it for a minimum of 5 minutes. 
>This 
>normally flushes the know mac address.  If it doesn't then you have to 
>wash-rinse-repeat again.
>
>
>-- 
>
>Regards
>Robert
>
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