[ale] HELP NEEDED - Comcast cable Modem and linux-centric home network

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Thu Jul 19 10:56:30 EDT 2012


The residential boxes are designed for a single customer PC to be
attached. If you want more AND you want it to "Just Work", get a small
router that supports MAC spoofing and connect all your PC stuff to it
using it's ports and not the box from comcast.

Most likely, the port/MAC combo is cached until reboot. Wireless is
different and should support multiple devices (poorly). You should
have access to the box enough to set your own wireless password. If
so, you should be able to turn off the radio as well.


On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know if which port on the cable modem matters to the
> device?  I.E. if I plugged a WIndows box into port one, I can't use
> that one for a different box without clearing the MAC?
>
> Pete Hardie
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> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:23 AM, mike at trausch.us <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
>> On 07/19/2012 09:15 AM, Erik Mathis wrote:
>>> I would try to spoof the MAC of the windows box, if thats what you
>>> used to setup the service with.
>>
>> The SMC boxes have a cap of like 100 MAC addresses or something like
>> that.  (More than you'd typically have in a home or small office network
>> segment, anyway.)  The fact that they have four ports means that they
>> just provide a network gateway (with all the bells and whistles thereof,
>> except the important ones that actually matter).
>>
>>         --- Mike
>>
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