AT&T Broadband

[willg at bluesock.org (will)]

They want both your router MAC and your NIC MAC because they don't support
routers and if they have to trouble-shoot your connection (which they
couldn't do on a perfect day anyways), they tell you to take your router
out of the picture.  They privision both MAC addresses for this
possibility.


On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> They only need the MAC address that they can see. But, you can have multiple systems on a 
> network behind a hub. 
> 
> My suggestion is to set you router up with the same MAC address as your primary PC. 
> On 14 Feb 2002 at 16:14, 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.
> > 
> > Just curious.
> > 
> > 
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