On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 @ 4:22 PM, Jim Cunning wrote: >On Tuesday 23 January 2007 13:41, Greg Wallace wrote: [...] >> Well John, I went down to Fry's today and bought a Netgear 4 port router.
>> I tried to set it up and it couldn't even connect to my ISP, which is cable >> modem and assigns ip addresses automatically (so how could it fail to get >> the address?). So, I plugged my leaky Belkin router back in and was up and >> running again immediately. I guess I'll try a D-Link router next. >> >> Greg Wallace >Greg, >Did you reset your cable modem? Most cable modems that I have seen learn >the >MAC address of the host/router connected to them and won't talk to another >until the modem has been restarted. Bingo. That was the problem. I unplugged my modem and plugged it back in and now everything is working fine. >One way to avoid this situation is to use the "Clone MAC Address" function >many routers have, so they appear to have the MAC address of the/one LAN >host >connected to it. That way, the cable modem always see the same MAC address, >regardless of the router actually attached to it. I don't see that function in this particular router (Netgear RP614), but since I'll be using this router from now on (at least hopefully) I doubt I'll have that problem again. >Jim Thanks!, Greg Wallace -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
