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IPL · 24-02-2005, 14:41

I was asked to set up a friends connection yesterday. He wants to add a wireless router to an existing, working STB set-up. The routers is not given an IP address by the STB, althought it's been configured with DHCP. I asked my client to contact NTL and ask them to add the MAC address of the new router to the STB. NTL inform him that I'm talking ******** and simply plugging the router in will work like magic!

So, if I can't get it working tonight, I'm going to be heading down the MAC cloning ruote. I presume it's merely a simple matter of cloning the MAC of the PC NIC onto the router and cloning the MAC of the router onto the PC - I suspect the network wouldn't be too happy with 2 identical MAC's talking to each other?

24-02-2005, 14:41	#9
IPL Inactive Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 3	Re: Wireless Issues I was asked to set up a friends connection yesterday. He wants to add a wireless router to an existing, working STB set-up. The routers is not given an IP address by the STB, althought it's been configured with DHCP. I asked my client to contact NTL and ask them to add the MAC address of the new router to the STB. NTL inform him that I'm talking ******** and simply plugging the router in will work like magic! So, if I can't get it working tonight, I'm going to be heading down the MAC cloning ruote. I presume it's merely a simple matter of cloning the MAC of the PC NIC onto the router and cloning the MAC of the router onto the PC - I suspect the network wouldn't be too happy with 2 identical MAC's talking to each other?