AT&T Broadband

[Jerry Feldman]

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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