r81984
Fair and Balanced
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join:2001-11-14
St John'S, NL
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| reply to FordMxRacer
Re: Campus wont let us have routers
to turn your router into a switch, just go into the router settings and turn off your dhcp server. Then plug your campus internet into the lan port and your computers into lan ports. Now it will just act as a switch. If your 360 and your computer are using the same mac address you most likely will have a conflict and it might red flag with your campus network people that their is a mac conflict. |
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FordMxRacer
join:2006-01-20
San Marcos, TX
| reply to AllSeeingEye
I got the 360 to work by manually inserting ip address, netmask address, mac address, and few other things it asks for but the problem is I have to use the cable I want for my computer so my question is will a switch make it possible for me to get on both consoles at the same time or is there a way to turn a router into a switch because I have one?
Ryan |
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FordMxRacer
join:2006-01-20
San Marcos, TX | reply to plattypus1
How exactly do you mac spoof?
Thanks Ryan |
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plattypus1
join:2005-04-08
Riverside, CA
·Charter Pipeline
| reply to AllSeeingEye
I replied to your PM, but I'll post here so others can get the benefit of the solution.
Get a router, and immediately disable DHCP. Then, register your PC normally, while it's connected to the wall. Get your PC's MAC address.
Now, disconnect the PC, plug in the router and set it up to do MAC spoofing, Type in your PC's address. Plug in your gaming consoles and game away.
This may affect your ability to access local resources, such as Windows File & Print Sharing fileshares or other things on your campus network, but the difference to your internet applications will be absolutely none. |
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aviper9
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join:2003-05-20
Salisbury, MD
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| reply to FordMxRacer
your best bet is to try to get in contact with the network and/or server groups at your university. Someone there runs the Cisco clean-access agent management system. Hopefully they can register additional mac addresses for you. Get the mac address of your xbox 360 and try to give it to the people that deal with the registration. |
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FordMxRacer
join:2006-01-20
San Marcos, TX | reply to AllSeeingEye
Has anyone found the actual solution to fixing this because my roomate and I cant figure out how to get our 360 working online.
Ryan |
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maxkool
join:2005-05-19
Rockville, MD
| reply to AllSeeingEye
I don't know if you said if you have laptop or a desktop. But if you have a desktop running XP. get another NIC and run a crossover cable to from you consol to you PC. Then use XPs inernet Connection Sharing. The machine will act as a "router" more or less. |
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Thespis
I'm not an actor, but I play one on TV.
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join:2004-08-03
Keller, TX
| reply to AllSeeingEye
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I just logged into to it with the default password and did a bad firmware flash to brick it and prevent it from giving out ips again.
You couldn't have just turned off DHCP, huh? Or maybe just configured it correctly?
Sheesh! |
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TXAdmin
@comcast.net | reply to AllSeeingEye
A switch won't cause any problems; but it won't let "anyone" access the internet. You will still have to have every device MAC adress registered. If you get a router set up right; it will fix all of your problems. |
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TxAdmin
@comcast.net
| reply to AllSeeingEye
Internet Connection Sharing is probably your cheapest solution. However; you have to have the serving computer on all of the time. Some linksys and D-Link routers have the ability to use a specified MAC adress. This is very helpful when you have to go through a MAC adress filter. However, even if you don't have one that can change the MAC adress; you can just give them the MAC adress of your router as if it was another one of your PC's. Your network administrator is right, it can effect some functionality of the system; however, (if they know their stuff) it should only limit your access to thier domain.
If you want to set up a router. Go to the command prompt and type "ipconfig /all" write down all of the information because you will need to manually enter it using your routers setup (http, telnet, ect.). Then either change the MAC adress of your router, or register the MAC adress with your admin; this should give you access to the internet with as many computers as you would like. |
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rwong48
join:2002-11-10
San Jose, CA
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| reply to AllSeeingEye
At my campus we also have Cisco Clean Access Agent. In my room we have 4 ports and one guy's computer isn't even set up so I use one port for my desktop and one for my laptop. Cisco Clean Access Agent still allows me to log in to both (with the same username) at the same time, so that shouldn't be a problem.
I can see how a router can start problems, but I don't really understand how a switch can.
And I plan on bringing my Xbox soon and I have no idea how I will set this up  |
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AllSeeingEye
@uncc.edu | reply to td4guy
So this will work with others too like Gamecube and PS2 as well as ps3/xbox2/revolution ? |
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td4guy
join:2005-09-25
Studio City, CA
| reply to AllSeeingEye
At my school with Cisco Clean Access, you need to register your game console's MAC address so that you can play online. So just get your router's MAC address and register it with your network admins. Tell 'em that it's your Xbox's MAC address. That'll bypass the Clean Access Agent. |
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Skyrunner8
join:2002-01-10
Berkeley, CA | reply to AllSeeingEye
could you not do Internet Connection Sharing through windows? Just buy a cheap NIC and your in buisness. I don't know how well this would work but it might.
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-Jeff |
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AllSeeingEye
@uncc.edu
| reply to AllSeeingEye
Oh good then if those 2 have it im sure nintendo revolution will give us that option too  I want that one, esp now they showed their psycho coolness controler. |
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AlkalineArmy
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join:2002-03-14
Greenfield, IN
| reply to AllSeeingEye
said by AllSeeingEye :
So consoles have a thing to let u change it's mac address?
Yes, you can change the MAC address of the Xbox through the network configuration tool and you can change the MAC of the PS2 with the network setup disc. |
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devicenull
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join:2002-12-01
Clifton, NJ
| reply to r81984
That was a nice thing to do, destroy someones router, even though they are allowed on the network. Can I destroy your computer now because it's causing tcp/ip traffic?
Makes me happy that I'm planning on getting a box to run m0n0wall with a switch behind it |
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AllSeeingEye
@uncc.edu | reply to AllSeeingEye
Well at my school, we just need to reg our mac adress (i belive we can do 2 computers) and then if u have windows use cisco clean access agent, So consoles have a thing to let u change it's mac address? |
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plattypus1
join:2005-04-08
Riverside, CA
·Charter Pipeline
| reply to r81984
A lot of times these registration things require a web browser. I know UCR's resnet specifically says that they don't support PS/2's, even if you don't have a computer, because they can't log on to the web registration interface. (And because they're too lazy to actually manually register the cards.)
Having a router gets around this problem, as you only need one computer behind the router with a web browser to register the MAC. |
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r81984
Fair and Balanced
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join:2001-11-14
St John'S, NL
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| reply to AllSeeingEye
Why would they not let you have a router????? At purdue routers are recommended for multiple computers as each person only gets 1 dynamic ip address per student username. If you use xbox live or anything like that you will need a router at purdue.
When I was in the dorms we found someone hooked up their router wrong, and it was giving us 192 ips. I just logged into to it with the default password and did a bad firmware flash to brick it and prevent it from giving out ips again. |
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