On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 03:58:41AM -0500, Matthew Closson wrote: > Yes, 5 minutes is the required amount of time to clear the cache on most > cable modems I've worked with (Toshiba, 3com, Motorola, Terayon), 10 > seconds will not do. Otherwise you could probably copy the MAC address > off your win2k box and use that.
Another option to find out if that caching is really the problem would be to download an OpenBSD live CD and start it on the Windows XP box and see what happens when you run dhclient. http://g.paderni.free.fr/olivebsd/ Bernd
