RE: Fedora core 1 sendmail problems

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Am Mi, den 31.03.2004 schrieb Homer Sapions um 05:35:

> Thanks Alexander, I may contact you again to help with testing directly. The 
> problem is that my ISP has bound my IP address to the MAC address of the 
> first PC I attached. I can get it changed, but it may take 4 - 8 hours, so I 
> have just set the linksys to masquerade as the first PCs MAC address. If I 
> now bypass the linksys, the cable modem will see the MAC address of my Linux 
> server and not allow me access to the internet. I have another idea based on 
> what somebody else (Bob?) suggested. I have a hub. I will disconnect one of 
> my Windows PCs from the Linksys and connect it to the hub. Then I will 
> connect the hub to the linksys incomig port so that the PC will effectively 
> be on the outside of the LinkSys. That way I can eliminate the linksys from 
> the equation and narrow it to just the cable modem and the ISP. As I said, I 
> don't know of a way to reconfigure the cable modem, if it is even possible. 
> I had never considered that as an option. It is a Motorola Surfboard SB4100 
> - I'll see if I can find any books I got with it, or search online.

You can easily modify the MAC address of your NIc with following
command:

ifconfig hw ether 00:D0:B6:D2:14:4E

(MAC above is a sample)

Alexander
 

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