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

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Thu Jul 19 11:48:35 EDT 2012


ALWAYS KEEP A SPARE!!!!

heh, heh!

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
> And I thought I'd never find a use for my tinfoil hat!
>
> Pete Hardie
> --------
> Better Living Through Bitmaps
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic
>>>>>> than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
>>>>>>                                    --- Carveth Read, “Logic”
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>> own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
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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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