Re: Road Runner and IP Masquerading

["Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>]

On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:10:57AM +0000, Jim Breton wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 07:50:34PM -0800, Tor Roberts wrote:
> > are you sure that you have your /etc/sysctl.conf setup with the line:
> > net.inet.ip.forwarding=1
> 
> Also note that some (maybe all?) cable providers tie your connection to
> the MAC address of your ethernet card.  If you swap NICs, or like in
> your case if you put a different computer on the cable modem, it won't
> work.  In such a situation you need to either use the ethernet card that
> was in the Win/whatever machine you originally set up the service on, or
> you can spoof the hardware address (I know how to do this in Linux but
> not *BSD, though there was a thread about this recently).

Or you can just power cycle your modem.
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Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu