Yeah, I saw that, sometimes stuff just has to be rephrased a few times.
The reason for it here in the Seattle area is that the Comcast cable modems lock to one MAC address, and unless you leave them powered off for about 10 minutes they wouldn't release that and work with a different device, be it a PC, router, or whatever.
Verizon and Qwest DSL on the other hand often are set to bridge mode, so they just hand out IPs like candy to the remote network if you have stuff hooked to a switch first.
I'm sure you knew that though, but just in case other people reading were kinda lost.
I still think there are simpler ways to do this project, though I still don't quite follow what the project *is*.
