On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 @ 11:07 PM, John Anderson wrote: >On Tuesday 23 January 2007 17:07, Greg Wallace wrote: >> >Thanks, >> >Greg Wallace >> >> I've been doing some googling on this and I'm still a bit confused. When >> you choose, for example, "Use This Mac Address", if that's not the mac >> address that the modem picked earlier (from, say, a different router) will >> it be accepted, or wouldn't you still have to re-boot the modem to get it to >> use that new address? Or am I still not understanding this process?
>First before you worry about this make sure your cable provider actually >imposes a requirement to use a specific mac address. If they don't, >and you never remember giving them a mac address before then just >don't worry about it. They don't. Someone was telling me it might be helpful to change the setting in the router related to the Mac address. That had me a bit confused. I think I now understand the 3 options it gives -- Use Default Mac Address -- Means use the one built into the router Use Computer Mac Address -- Means user your computer's Mac Address. Use This Mac Address -- Opens up the Router's Mac address box and lets you key in anything you want. I think my modem just grabs the Mac address off of the router when it's booted and connected to the router, so any of those 3 should work, meaning just leaving it as the default "Use Default Mac Address" is all I think I really needed, but maybe I'm still not understanding it correctly. Anyway, just powering both down and back up again got it working. >If for some reason you must provide a mac address, turn over your old >router and read the mac address off the bottom and key it in and select >use THIS mac address, which means the netgear is to pretend its mac >address was what you keyed in rather than what is burned in silicon inside. >Really, this is very seldom necessary, unless you had a static IP or >something. >-- >_____________________________________ >John Andersen Thanks, Greg W. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
