I purchased a modem recently for my Optimum service (to avoid renting from them). Everything seems great about it, however we had some trouble setting it up initially because apparently the sticker on the back seems to be a completely different CMAC number than the one the device is actually using.
The rep was able to figure out what it actually is and provisioned it for me, now the modem is working fine. But this got me suspicious, why would the modem have a different MAC address than the clearly printed label on it? Was it modified/hacked? Is there something I should be concerned about with that, or should I just leave well enough (it works) alone?
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