I know that our local Media One Cable recognizes the Mac address for your system, and
their dhcp won't respond to any other card than the one that was present when they
installed their software.
Which means that when you switch from a direct connection to Media One, to going
through STN, you must switch your NIC cards around so STN has the original.
Perhaps your ISP uses the MAC address values to decide what IP address to assign you???
Just a wild guess.
John Smith
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On Mon, 28 Jun 1999 13:05:59 Eric Glanz wrote:
>This problem started when I could not get any of my inbound services to
>work. Checked with my ISP, and they do no port blocking...
>
>
>Hmmm... So I started doing a little digging.
>
>ShareThe Net reports recieving the SAME IP address from my ISPs DHCP server
>(xxx.yyy.144.95) everytime it boots. Suspecting something is wrong, I plug
>the DSL modem directly into an NT server and set it up to recieve an address
>from the ISPs DHCP server. IPConfig reports (xxx.yyy.144.206)
>
>!!! They are different!
>
>So my question is this: Why does ShareTheNet DHCP client think it is
>getting the same ip address from the ISPs DHCP server, when a Windows
>machine can get the correct IP address???
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
>--Eric
>
>
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