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On 10/09/2013 23:50, Joseph wrote: |
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> I forgot to mention. |
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> My router is an old 486-box running freesco. So I'm trying to find out |
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> if the router is the problem with slow connection. |
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> as my download speed on cable is only 3.7Mbps and it should be about |
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> 15Mbps up to 25Mbps |
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> upload speed is 1.5Mbps |
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What speed NIC do you have in that 486? |
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10M? 100M? And is it running full duplex? |
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3.7M is, IIRC, about what I'd expect from 10M half-duplex. NIC cards of |
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that era were prone to getting auto-negotiation badly wrong. |
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Even an old 486 should be able to deal with 100M traffic easily. |
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Even so, I'd still not trust your cable provider's advice. There is |
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still a good chance the problem really is with the cable connection. |
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> Joseph |
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> On 09/10/13 23:10, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> On 10/09/2013 19:47, Joseph wrote: |
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>>> Does anybody know how to spoof mac address on Gentoo? |
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>>> I want to connect a machine directly to the modem but if I do so my |
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>>> static IP will change; so to retain static IP I want to spoof mac |
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>>> address on one of my machine to the same MAC as on my router. |
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>> If you have a host and a router with the same MAC address, how do you |
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>> suppose ethernet will continue to work? |
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>> Instead, rather do it right - your modem has a dhcp server. Configure it |
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>> to supply a specific address to your host's MAC address. Or, just set |
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>> the address statically in /etc/conf.d/net and don't use dhcp. |
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>> Or, do you actually want to bridge the modem and do pppoe on the host |
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>> instead of by the modem? |
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>> in /etc/conf.c/net: |
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>> mac_key_001122334455="s:foobar" |
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>> documented in /usr/share/doc/netifrc*/net.example.bz2 |
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>> If you use a different network manager, consult that packages own docs |
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>> on how to change mac addresses. |
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>> Alan McKinnon |
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>> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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