VanLUG Email Archive
Bruce (bahomet@home.com)
Tue, 20 Oct 1998 22:29:01 -0700
I have had it confirmed from Rogers tech support (FWIW) that the
LanCity modems have to be disvconnected from the power for a
minimum of 10 seconds, because it does latch on to the MAC
address of your NIC.
The only time (save one) that I have had to reboot the modem has
been when I have changed between different boxes. So far, (for the
most part) it's worked like a charm, and I am into my third month so
far...
> Actually, the Lancity Modems are not "buggy". They work this way
> on purpose. You can connect more than one machine via a hub, if
> the modem has been confirured to accept this ( modems can be
> configured to support from 1 to 16 MAC addresses) The cable
> modem reads the MAC address from the the NIC attaching to it's
> ethernet port and will only authorize the first x (number) of
> MAC addresses it see's depending on what x (number) it has been
> programed to accept.
> He's right this is their attempt to cap the number of machines.
> I had to reboot my lancity every week to week and a half. That's
> somewhat buggy.
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