Re: Connecting a linspire box to comcast

[email protected] wrote:

>>When he tries the release/renew steps, the buttons
>>"didn't respond".  I'm not exactly sure what he means
>>by that, but if someone has hooked up linspire to
>>comcast, or has any ideas what might be wrong, let me
>>know.
>>    
>>
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>Typically, cable modems "remember" your MAC address, so when you hook it
>up to another box, it doesn't recognize it, and won't let you on.  You can
>usually solve this power cycling the modem.
>  
>

Actually, their authentication system (codename bedrock) does this, and 
won't let you on, regardless of how many times you cycle the modem. 
(SAS, the previous system, kept track of mac/ip pairings per modem, but 
not very closely; and it didn't restrict them, which is why you could 
plug multiple computers into a cable modem without issue, even above 
your ip-per-modem limit).

Unfortunatly, bedrock's sole mission in life is to assfuck anybody who 
doesn't want a comcast branded IE or doesn't run Windows (or wants to 
steal IPs :)).

Best bets:

Get a router that will spoof the mac of the Windows machine you 
registered with on the external side, and connect both computers to it.

Spoof the Windows machine's mac on the Linux box before attempting to 
get an IP.

Supposedly, you can now also be provisioned over the phone, for people 
running Linux etc. I don't know, I've never tried it.

More info here:

http://www.dslreports.com/faq/11356

Hope that helps.