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

[Jim Kinney]

Al foil grounded over the antenna...

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think I can have my router spoof the PC's MAC.  ANother suggestion
> for the list.
>
> The wifi has no option to turn it off, as far as I could tell - I can
> set SSID, security mode, password, DHCP range and lease time, and
> channel, but nothing to mute the radio....
>
>
> Pete Hardie
> --------
> Better Living Through Bitmaps
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The residential boxes are designed for a single customer PC to be
>> attached. If you want more AND you want it to "Just Work", get a small
>> router that supports MAC spoofing and connect all your PC stuff to it
>> using it's ports and not the box from comcast.
>>
>> Most likely, the port/MAC combo is cached until reboot. Wireless is
>> different and should support multiple devices (poorly). You should
>> have access to the box enough to set your own wireless password. If
>> so, you should be able to turn off the radio as well.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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
>>> --------
>>> Better Living Through Bitmaps
>>>
>>>
>>> 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).
>>>>
>>>>         --- Mike
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>> than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
>>>>                                    --- Carveth Read, “Logic”
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>>>>
>>>>
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James P. Kinney III

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain

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