Cable DHCP server not picking up my Mac addy

[Sweet Leaf]

here it goes.

I have a TurboLinux websever that works great when it pull an ip from my MS DHCP server or when I plug it directly into my Toshiba cable modem. It pulls the real ip just fine but when I plug it into the hub it can no longer see the web. My ISP binds ips by mac address. I can pull the real ip by dhcp from them and I can plug in the info as a staic ip and it works great as long as I am plugged directly into my cable modem.
I cant do do that since the rest of my network needs the web too :)

Any thoughts???

[dvdnut]

yeh
if you can find out the mac address of your hub then you are sorted

in my experience, cablemodems, unless flukey, will only work with a direct connection between pc and cm, and use that pc as a gateway.

hth