[Cialug] Mediacom

[Jonathan Bailey]

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.