Re: Trying to replace my router with a Debian machine - but I can't understand my existing setup

[Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes@yahoo.com>]

Aneurin Price wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
>>
>> they could be configured to take the mac address and obtain the ip ...
>> same mac, same IP ?? do you think its possible. check
>>
> 
> This is an interesting point.
> I've just managed to get the connection to work by re-entering the
> connection details in the modem (without changing anything) and restarting
> it. I suspect that it may have learned the MAC address of the router it
> was connected to and been continuing to attempt to bridge the connection
> to that device. Restarting would then have given it the opportunity to
> detect that it's connected to a different device.
> 
> So it turns out that the config of my new machine I'd set up was fine
> after all, and I just needed to restart the modem. Tch. Why didn't I try
> that in the first place?
> 
> Thanks,
> Nye

hehe, this was fun in respect to the 1000 lines you wrote. I can not help
you answer the question why you did not try this first ;-)

regards