[TriLUG] Linux and RoadRunner ( was Linux and ATT)

[lfwelty]

Or many of the consumer/soho firewall-appliances have a feature allowing
you to code the MAC presented to the WAN. Apply the MAC that was given to
your ISP-delivered-NIC (store NIC in the closet for future reference) and
you now appear to be that NIC. The Linksys is the one I'm most familiar
with.

Chris Hedemark wrote:
> 
> On Friday 05 April 2002 11:43 am, you wrote:
> > You do not have to tell them you have a firewall.  They already know.  I
> > called to report a RR outage, the first thing the tech said was "I see you
> > have a Netgear firewall".  You can get this from the MAC of the WAN side of
> > the firewall.  By the way he fixed the problem without asking anything
> > about my computer or OS.
> 
> See I use an OpenBSD firewall but I use the NIC that they gave me for the
> external adapter so as far as they know it is just a PC that they can't seem
> to successfully port scan for some reason.
> 
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