On Wednesday 24 January 2007 08:47, Greg Wallace wrote: > Apparently, that's the way mine works. I had turned the old router on and > off a dozen times without re-booting the modem. However, switching in the > new router (with a new mac address) wouldn't work with out re-booting the > modem. I've been speculating as to why the modem needs to capture that mac > address.
The other possibility is that the modem is really dumb about negotiation and the new router was different than the old in that respect. Most cable modems auto-negotiate not only between 10/100 and Half/Full duplex but also Crossover/Straight cabling. I've pulled cat five out of the back of a computer (which expects straight cabling) and plugged it into an uplink port of a router (which expects crossover) and had it fail exactly as you saw. A power reset on the cable modem fixed this. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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