Cable Modems, MAC addresses and CPE
A friend of mine called me from Alabama, where he will be working until April. One of his co-workers/room-mates is getting cable modem service put into their apartment.
My friend is on a powerbook, running OS 9.x and the service technician who came to set up the cable modem service didn't know how to setup the Macintosh (naturally). I walked the tech through setting up a new TCP/IP configuration, but then he started wanting to set up the CPE and the MAC address, claiming that a static IP was assigned by the provider once those other things are set up.
Having considered this, I suspect that all I had to do was tell him to select DHCP and let it go. Is that correct? Anything special about setting up a Mac on a cable modem that I should know?
Thatnks,
Drew
My friend is on a powerbook, running OS 9.x and the service technician who came to set up the cable modem service didn't know how to setup the Macintosh (naturally). I walked the tech through setting up a new TCP/IP configuration, but then he started wanting to set up the CPE and the MAC address, claiming that a static IP was assigned by the provider once those other things are set up.
Having considered this, I suspect that all I had to do was tell him to select DHCP and let it go. Is that correct? Anything special about setting up a Mac on a cable modem that I should know?
Thatnks,
Drew
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I suspect not having the command prompt stumped him.
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Having considered this, I suspect that all I had to do was tell him to select DHCP and let it go. Is that correct? Anything special about setting up a Mac on a cable modem that I should know?
Thatnks,
Drew</strong><hr></blockquote>
I'm not sure whether there are any differences between OS 9 and OS X, but I recently set up a cable modem under OS X and all I had to do was plug it in. DHCP was selected by default and away it went.