Originally posted by rikytik@Jun 14 2003, 03:20 PM
There is a wide difference between ISP's. My ISP in Canada uses the MAC id of the connecting device. To conect, we must realease the IP address before disconecting the router, connect the modem to the pc's NIC, then do ipconfig renew. If we mess it up, ther is no recourse but to telephone the ISP and ask them to release and renew. You gotta go through the same routine in the inverse--or, clone the NIC MAC address in the router before connecting it to the modem.
as far as i know, my isp Bellsouth never has used the mac address for anything, what i was wondering though was that if my modem was ignoring my nic's mac id and expecting the router's, but a reset to defaults should have cleared that
another thing that i might not have made clear is, it's not a problem with connecting to my isp, it's just the modem's built in config pages i can't even connect to, which of course i can't connect over pppoe with xp's dialer either, because my machine doesn't realize the modem is there in the first place