I've heard folklore that power-cycling the cable-modem works -
apparently it's the thing that remembers the MAC.
Barney Wolff
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:55:14AM -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
>
> > > I'm connected through cable to the 'Net, and the provider I go
> > > through, it appears, somehow has it setup that if I change nics, I hvae a
> > > bugger of a time re-acquiring a lease ...
> >
> > I presume dhclient is what you use to get your IP address.
> >
> > I've seen ISPs that record the MAC address of the interface, and won't give
> > out addresses to any other MAC address but the original one. They'll expire
> > that MAC eventually, but perhaps not for 24 hours or a week.
>
> this is what it appears it was ... called up their tech support last
> night, the girl there said "we dont' support Unix", I asked her to release
> the IP and low-n-behold, I got a new one ...
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