Brian Boutel wrote:

> Donald Gordon wrote:
> >
> > The saturn cable network is basically a large switched ethernet LAN. IP
> > and
> > other stuff can run over it; you can only see packets destined for you
> > and
> > broadcast ones. The modem doesn't know IP, AFAIK. The PC connected to
> > it
> > uses DHCP to ask another system on the network for the IP address, if I
> > understand the David's FAQ correctly
> >
>
> OK. Looking at the COM21 web page, it seems the modem acts as a bridge
> at the MAC level, so the filtering is based on a h/w address.
>
> So, does it have its own address? Or does it discover the address of the
> nic(s) it is connected to?
> The specs say it has an 8 entry bridge table and is able to support 8
> users via a normal hub.

It appears to have it's own MAC address (or at least on the bottom it says MAC
00A0xxxxxx).

-donald

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Received on Sun Jun 4 18:09:12 2000