Thus spake Peter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [21/03/06 01:46]: : > Was the Win2k box connected first? Many (most?) Canadian cable : > providers : > cache the MAC address of the connected machine, and generally : > speaking, : > unplugging the cable modem for five minutes should re-set the cached : > address : > on their side. : > : > Otherwise... logs? : : I did hear of the caching feature so I unplugged the power but only for : about 10 seconds. Five minutes you say?
Yeah, give it five minutes. That /should/ clear it out. (You may want to unplug power as well -- I've heard conflicting reports about that.) : I don't see any logs being generated except for it not being able to : find a dhcp server. On one occasion only did I see something to the : effect "accepted blah length not same as blah length." Like what it : received was not the length of what is was supposed to receive. Strange. My guess is the caching -- it really is as simple as running 'dhclient <interface>'. You could also try calling them up to see if they cache the MAC or not, for how long if they do, and what it takes to flush the cache.
