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