DNS Issues

[Duane Attaway]

On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> > On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 08:16:25PM -0500, Jerry Place wrote:
>
> > > I suspect
> > > they are using port monitoring to identify my first 48 bit NIC
> > > address and when they see packets with another NIC address, they
> > > refuse the DHCP request ...
>
> From: "chuckx" <chuckx at cold-sun.com>
> > What you described is just about right.
>
> Can't be.  If you reset the modem, you can connect another PC.  Only one at
> a time for most of us.

The cablemodem upon reset has an empty mac table.  It happily gathers
these macs and fills up this table.  This table full of numbers determines
who gets permission to take a number and get in line.  The caveat is, the
size of this table can be set.

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