[ale] HELP NEEDED - Comcast cable Modem and linux-centric home network

[Pete Hardie]

Does anyone know if which port on the cable modem matters to the
device?  I.E. if I plugged a WIndows box into port one, I can't use
that one for a different box without clearing the MAC?

Pete Hardie
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On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:23 AM, mike at trausch.us <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> On 07/19/2012 09:15 AM, Erik Mathis wrote:
>> I would try to spoof the MAC of the windows box, if thats what you
>> used to setup the service with.
>
> The SMC boxes have a cap of like 100 MAC addresses or something like
> that.  (More than you'd typically have in a home or small office network
> segment, anyway.)  The fact that they have four ports means that they
> just provide a network gateway (with all the bells and whistles thereof,
> except the important ones that actually matter).
>
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