AT&T Broadband

[mark at buttery.org (Mark J. Dulcey)]

junk wrote:
> I have been a customer of AT&T Broadband / MediaOne in Cambridge since 1999.
> 
> I have just moved to a different AT&T Broadband city and had just had a
> 'Basic Installation' done - this is where the cable contractor just brings
> in the line from the pole, check for a good connection to the modem and then
> leave. When I called in for activation, I was asked for the MAC address for
> my NIC. When I told them I was using a router - the guy at AT&T said that
> then he would need the MAC addresses of the NIC as well as the router.
> 
> My question is this:
> 
> Is the AT&T person simplly just needed to fill out all the blanks on his
> form, or is AT&T now doing something with the MAC address of the NIC? I have
> been swapping differenet boxes running all sorts of OS's behind the router
> without any problem.

If you're connecting a router to the cable modem, they shouldn't have 
any way of even seeing the MAC address of any NIC that is behind it. 
They're probably just filling in the blanks.