USMT with USB NIC

I'm looking for some insight on how others have done USMT, side-by-side, with reused USB NICs. I would like to create computer associations to make this a very automated process, but I can't use the MAC address as the NIC it will detect gets reused
by the technicians. Does anyone have a workaround that they use for this scenario?
Best, Jacob I'm a PC.

Make sure that you remove the MAC address after the process is done. For that you could do something like this:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2014/07/28/how-to-use-the-same-external-ethernet-adapter-for-multiple-sccm-osd.aspx
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Thanks!
Message was edited by: Hagenaer

Thanks for your reply, DigiAngel.
DSL modems differ from cable modems as far as I understand. Where DSL modems are actually routers capable of NAT/DHCP, cable modems are just a network interface/brigde and can't do any of that. So it should pass the external IP to the computer. I'm writing on a laptop with the cable modem directly plugged into it, and it picked up the external IP etc. near instantly. The mac mini did the same before I ran the NAT setup assistant. I believe it picked it up once after that, but never since.
I had done a clean install, had the ethernet plugged into its internal ethernet port (en0) and was able to download all the system updates. Then plugged in the USB ethernet, I'm pretty sure it still picked up the IP there. Ran the NAT setup assistant and can't get anything to work anymore. Even with all services switched off.
So the modem is doing its job, but when I connect it to the USB nic the connection gets a self-assigned IP in about 3 seconds after seeing the cable is connected. The one time I've seen it get the right IP, it got a self-assigned IP first and then about 5 seconds later picked up on the correct IP. (And it picked up everything, including DNS server and search domains, which this laptop I'm writing on does not, although it works just the same).
Unfortunately, this laptop runs 10.4.11 which doesn't recognize the USB nic, so I can't test the adapter outside of the server environment. But I've had the genius bar test the adapter previously and it worked fine then, plus I've run the NAT setup assistant with the connections inverted (WAN over built-in ethernet, LAN over USB ethernet) with the same results: WAN gets self-assigned IP.
I've also tried configuring manual IP for the WAN from what I saw was given to this laptop (it kept the same IP even after being disconnected/reconnected, so I guess the IP for my modem won't change IP unless I reset it. Although I'm not sure if it's correct logic to assume the mac mini would pick up the same IP as well since I think that's actually tied to the MAC address and the IP doesn't belong to the modem but to the computer behind it).
Anyway, I'm not sure what to try next...
Hm. Wait, this might have something to do with it: the firewall logs the following:
Mar 22 14:12:07 server ipfw[4997]: 65534 Deny UDP 73.227.220.1:67 255.255.255.255:68 in via en 2
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Two Finger Right Click on late G4 iBook with USB Trackpad?

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For older Laptops with ADB-Trackpad there is a freeware program called iScroll2 which also provides this feature.
For the late 2005 G4 iBooks with USB-trackpads there is apparently nothing:
The feature doesn't come with 10.4.7 here and iScroll2 is ADB-only.
On the one hand I don't really get the problem here, why these machines are not supported.
Since there is no announcement from apple it seems that they are just not interested in supporting computers which have been sold till not even a year ago.
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have you tried installing iScroll? I'm pretty sure it
should work...by USB trackpad are you referring to a
trackpad plugged in to your USB port?!? (".)
Maybe I didn't explain it clearly enough in my OP:
The late G4 iBooks have a "Apple Internal Trackpad" which is a USB-Device, whereas older models sport an ADB-trackpad. In the late iBooks ADB is no longer present.
On the iScroll2 page (http://iscroll2.sourceforge.net/) you will find the following information:
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Make a router out of a simple notebook with one NIC (buy a second NIC)

Hello all,
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In theory, I "should" work ... but .. some component can have some little hard time to do the right things .. and for me, is not working right now.
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2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
link/ether 00:1d:e4:a3:d5:1a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 10.2.1.8/26 brd 10.2.1.63 scope global eth0
inet 10.2.1.66/26 brd 10.2.1.127 scope global eth0:0
inet6 fc80::21a:e2ff:fea3:d56a/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
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# Generated by iptables-save v1.4.10 on Sun Dec 12 17:30:01 2010
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:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]
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COMMIT
# Completed on Sun Dec 12 17:30:01 2010
# Generated by iptables-save v1.4.10 on Sun Dec 12 17:30:01 2010
*filter
:INPUT DROP [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [9:932]
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-A FORWARD -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
COMMIT
# Completed on Sun Dec 12 17:30:01 2010
... use the interface "eth0" (for the whole throughput) and do SNAT for all excepted for the LAN network ? But it seams to not work ...
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But for now, I have to understand why X11 Forwarding don't work ...
EDIT: xorg problem solved : xorg-auth was requested ...
Last edited by loopx (2011-01-09 18:08:28)

fukawi2 wrote:" ...it is dirty and nasty and shouldn't be done unless you're stuck on a deserted island and your only hope of rescue is building a router out of 2 coconuts, a sea shell and a single NIC that was washed up on the beach in the last storm. "
PRICELESS !!
@loopx: Honestly: return the USB NIC you just got, buy a compatible device(maybe an asus rt-n16) and install dd-wrt. You'll be a lot happier....
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IPod Mini Compatibility with USB 1.1 (Please help!)

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Welcome to Apple Discussions.
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I had installed WinXP Pro with SP1..
I got a 20 GB USB2.0 disk.i connected it on the both front or rear usb ports.
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I had to plug it out and in again..
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Those cables are fabricated, i think it's impossible ?
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I'm also having this problem. It's happening with my USB flash disk. I was almost buying another one when I tried it with Windows Vista on the same machine and it worked ok, then I tried Arch Linux (with kernel 2.6.30.5) on another machine and got the same error. After that I tried Ubuntu and it worked ok. Seems that Arch's kernel doesn't like my USB flash disk.
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