On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Emanoil Kotsev <[email protected]> wrote: > Aneurin Price wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Emanoil Kotsev <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> they could be configured to take the mac address and obtain the ip ... >>> same mac, same IP ?? do you think its possible. check >>> >> >> This is an interesting point. >> I've just managed to get the connection to work by re-entering the >> connection details in the modem (without changing anything) and restarting >> it. I suspect that it may have learned the MAC address of the router it >> was connected to and been continuing to attempt to bridge the connection >> to that device. Restarting would then have given it the opportunity to >> detect that it's connected to a different device. >> >> So it turns out that the config of my new machine I'd set up was fine >> after all, and I just needed to restart the modem. Tch. Why didn't I try >> that in the first place? >> >> Thanks, >> Nye > > hehe, this was fun in respect to the 1000 lines you wrote. I can not help > you answer the question why you did not try this first ;-) >
Yeah, it's amazing how often restarting things will magically fix problems. I really ought to remember to try that more often. Nye -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
