[svlug] using Comcast modem and a Linksys router?

[John Conover]

Christian Einfeldt writes:
> 
> I need a little help getting a router working with a Comcats modem for one
> of the students who got a box from the ACCRC - Untangle installfest.  The
> Gutsy box can't see the Internet, but a Windows Pro 2000 box can see the
> Internet.  Daniel Gimpelevich, who is almost never wrong about these things,
> believes that this modem will recognize only one MAC address (if I
> understand Daniel correctly).  Since her mother has a Windows Pro 2000
> desktop box that is currently connected to the Comcast DSL modem, Daniel
> thinks that we need to call Comcast to get their permission to recognize any
> other device.
> 
> We would like to try to connect the router to Comcast modem, which hopefully
> will then issue IP addresses for the two boxes down stream, the Windows box
> and the Ubuntu box.  I am wondering if we should just contact Comcast and
> ask them to allow the router to stand between the Comcast modem and the two
> boxes, or if there are some other tricks that might work.
>

If you change Modems, I think you may have to re-register the new
modem's MAC address with Comcast. I don't know how current it is, but:

    http://www.johncon.com/john/knoppix/

is the way I did it several years ago when I was using Coyote Linux as
a router for my LAN.

  John

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John Conover, conover at rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/