[Cialug] Mediacom

[Jon Clemons]

For the too lazy to setup your own linux firewall, those Linksys DSL 
routers work pretty good and are cheap:)

Jonathan Bailey wrote:
> Hmm... I forgot to register my new firewall and ifdowned/ipuped my interface 
> and it still works. Oh well... Went to register anyway. There was a second 
> MAC there. Apparently no option to REMOVE only REPLACE.... Guess I'll have to 
> call customer service to make sure I'm not being charged for another IP...
> 
> 
> 
> Jon
> 
> On Wednesday 21 August 2002 08:03 am, you wrote:
> 
>>After I rebooted my computers last night, I discovered that Mediacom
>>is enforcing it's "one ip address per customer" policy.
>>
>>It appears that somehow the modem is filtering DHCP request by mac. (
>>wild guess) If they don't have your Mac on file, a DHCP request yields a
>>private ip address.  Then the only place you can to get to after that
>>is: https://sas.r21.mchsi.com   Where you register/unregister your mac.
>>If you add another mac it costs you an extra $5.00 per month, per mac.
>>
>>I knew it was gonna happen sooner or later..... The technical support
>>person says tons of people are using extra IP's, so they are only
>>"turning on"  "IP enforcement" in a couple of communities at a time.
> 
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