>First, I posted this also to the 8500 listserv so sorry if anyone has to
>read this twice.
>
>Hello everyone,
>
>I seem to have a bit of a problem here. I've just come back to Mac's from
>Windoze and I have
>and 8500. What I do with my PC is just hook it up to my cable modem, turn
>it on and it generates
>and IP address just fine.
>Thing is, the Mac doesn't. I've set the TCP/IP control panel to Ethernet
>and Use DHCP server but
>when I reboot it either doesn't pull and IP at all or gives me some weird
>IP address that the modem doesn't
>understand. I'm running OS 8.5 now and I had the same problem with the
>original 7.5 that was installed on it.
>
>I've tried all I can think of to fix it and without connectivity, the
>machine is worthless to me. (I design web pages and have to upload
>everything when I finish).
It's possible your modem is remembering the MAC address of your PC and
won't talk to another device. Usually power cycling the modem solves this.
It is however possible your ISP has the MAC address set up on their DHCP
server. If this is the case you'll need to contact them to change it.
You'd need to do this every time you switch between them. To avoid this
you'd need to setup a NAT router to allow both machines simultaneous use.
Some of the hardware routers let you configure a MAC address to use for
this very problem.
Try connecting the two machines together, setting manual IP addresses
(192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2 are good choices) and try communicating
between them. OS 8.5 has Personal Web Sharing as a server to test with.
Be advised that the Mac MAY not respond to a ping unless some program is
using IP access. This can be changed by going into the TCP/IP control
panel, press Command-U, change user mode to Advanced, close the User Mode
window, click on options and un-check the "Load only when needed".
--
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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