Thanks for your suggestion Clark. It turns out that you are correct. I
have to unplug the cable modem, wait, then reboot the machine I need to
have connected at that time. I'll definitely look into the NAT
router. Any suggestions of a good place to start (hopefully bypassing the
search engines?) :-)
Thanks again,
Chris
At 06:39 PM 7/30/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >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
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>"I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway"
>
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