On Monday, 13 September, 2010 @17:46 zulu, Jim scribed: > I checked in FC13 for the mac address for eth0 and physically > entered it in the router clone mac # . I usually just use the 'Get Current' button if connected to the router with the same computer. That often works better than manually transcribing. Still, the MAC filter *should* reset if you just unplug the modem for a half hour or so. Then it would have the router's MAC stored, assuming you disable the MAC Address Clone setting. That's also assuming comcast's techs are lying to you when they claim the computer's NIC's MAC isn't stored. On the Basic Setup tab, is the "Assign WAN Port to Switch" option unchecked? If that's checked I don't think it will ask for an address. To trouble shoot it, you could install Wireshark, then connect your 2nd router in between the modem and 1st router, using only LAN ports (i.e. LAN1 to modem, LAN2 to router1, LAN3 to your computer with a static IP, and LAN DHCP disabled on router2) so you can watch the broadcast traffic. Start Wireshark (whoever builds the RPMs puts it in Applications->Internet instead of in System Tools), on its menu use Capture->Interfaces and click Start on your eth0 adapter; When you power up router1, after about 20-30 seconds you should see it send a BOOTP request to 255.255.255.255, then see the reply from the modem. With a hub you could watch all the traffic, but it's hard to find a real hub anymore, expecially 100Mb, so all you *should* see are the broadcasts. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
