I've checked a few terms of service and it seems that most companies say that they won't support it but they don't forbid it. A few comapnies, however, actually forbid it. I thought that with ICS, only the internal NIC card has the 192.168.x.x addressing scheme, and that should be invisible to the outside network that is interfaced with the outgoing NIC card that receives a dynamically assigned IP address from the ISP. Mordy Gross -----Original Message----- From: win2kforum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:win2kforum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of The Ziggurat Builder Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 1:15 AM To: win2kforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [win2kforum] Re: Does ICS/Proxy reveal your internal MAC addresses to your ISP Actually, I work for tech support at a major cable modem company (I should say THE major cable modem company. Think Ted Turner) and we don't support routers or firewalls. If it was that company, then just know that they absolutely do NOT forbid routers, hubs, firewalls or linking multiple computers (go ahead, link 10 together- it won't slow down this behemoth of a company), they just don't SUPPORT it. Big difference. The reason? It's simple: In tech support, we want to make sure that the cable modem works- that means that the unit works, the signal is clear, and that the signal is coming in correctly. If all the above is OK, then it's not a hardware problem, and we move the qestion along to software support. Software support deals with soft conflicts that may interefere with cable modem service. If you have a router, and you call tech support, then what you're looking for is ROUTER support, something that they don't deal with. They want to make sure that the modem is working- any firewalls or routers you add are your own business and they don't want to deal with them. Call Cisco or the place where your router comes from, you know? Anyway, it's very easy to tell if you're using a router. If you are dynamically assigned an IP from a range, and someone at your ISP looks at or pings your modem, they'll get back an IP address that reflects the DHCP range. Routers ALMOST ALWAYS come up as 192.xxx IP addresses (the IP that the router sends to the modem and computer). If you want to ghost it and configure the router so that it comes up as another IP address, go ahead. Use ipconfig to find your "direct" IP address, and then maybe add and configure your router to use a similar IP to connect to your modem or computer. Just realize, though, that when you call with a real connection problem, lie about not having a router (or firewall, etc), and ghost a real-looking IP address, the ONLY thing that they can do is to send a technician- nothing else will work. So you'll wait like 1-3 days for some geek to come out and say, "Take the router off!", see that it works without the router, and leave. Hope that helps -Andy ----- To unsubscribe, send a message to win2kforum-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and put "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message. To reach the administrator(s), send a message to win2kforum-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ----- To unsubscribe, send a message to win2kforum-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and put "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message. To reach the administrator(s), send a message to win2kforum-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx