I installed a Time Warner Roadrunner RCA Cable modem using a Windows 98 PC.
Now that PC will only work normally when connected directly to the cable
modem.

When I connect it to a router, I get a correct DHCP address but don't see
the network and this computer will not ping others nor can it be pinged.

I can release and renew the DHCP lease from the router all day long but
nothing else works.

I can access the TW network from an ancient wireless laptop via the router
no problem. (The router is doing MAC Spoofing). So I suppose the only
difference between the two machines is that I've installed the TW software
on one and not the other.

I've unloaded and reloaded the TCPIP protocol. I haven't unloaded/reloaded
the Lan device itself because I'm not sure I'll be asked for a driver disk
and I don't have one.

I've also removed a suspicious program installed by Time Warner's Broadjump
install software called CFD.exe.

Any thoughts?

Answering my own question, :-) tomorrow I'll try removing the Broadjump
Client Foundation software (I really only disabled it in
HKLM-Software-Microsoft-Windows-CurrentVersion-Run).
A Google search of it indicates its a real nightmare.

"Ira Gershenhorn" <iragershenhorn@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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Ira:

Many Cable ISP's tie the subscription account to the MAC address of the originally setup PC.
To overcome this situation, many Cable/DSL Routers allow you to set the Router's WAN MAC
address to the MAC address of that PC. Often this is known as the "MAC Address Clone".

Dave



"Ira Gershenhorn" <iragershenhorn@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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| I installed a Time Warner Roadrunner RCA Cable modem using a Windows 98 PC.
| Now that PC will only work normally when connected directly to the cable
| modem.
|
| When I connect it to a router, I get a correct DHCP address but don't see
| the network and this computer will not ping others nor can it be pinged.
|
| I can release and renew the DHCP lease from the router all day long but
| nothing else works.
|
| I can access the TW network from an ancient wireless laptop via the router
| no problem. (The router is doing MAC Spoofing). So I suppose the only
| difference between the two machines is that I've installed the TW software
| on one and not the other.
|
| I've unloaded and reloaded the TCPIP protocol. I haven't unloaded/reloaded
| the Lan device itself because I'm not sure I'll be asked for a driver disk
| and I don't have one.
|
| I've also removed a suspicious program installed by Time Warner's Broadjump
| install software called CFD.exe.
|
| Any thoughts?
|
|

Yes. I'm well aware of that. I was able to access the internet just fine
via the MAC spoofing cable router. Just as long as it was from a different
machine.

I fixed the problem today. It was the Broadjump Client Foundation. I
removed it using Settings /
Add-Remove Programs (I'm told you must kill CFD.EXE first, I had already
removed it from the Run reg node). An installation last year of the same
ISP did not install this leechware.

Immediately after removal I was able to ping my cable router gateway.
Hurray! The tentacles were gone.

"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
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