On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 02:57:58PM +0000, Andy Hawkins wrote: > Sean Alexandre<s...@alexan.org> wrote: > > I've got two Debian Wheezy machines. One can connect to my cable modem fine, > > and gets an IP address. The other can't. They're both configured the same. > > Any > > ideas why this might be? > > Apologies for suggesting something obvious you might already have thought > of, but I seem to recall my Cable provider's modem will only provide DHCP > addresses to a single MAC unless it's been correctly release (or perhaps the > Cable Modem re-powered). > > Could it be as simple as that?
No, unfortunately. I know it's not a MAC address issue. Both my TP-LINK home router and the Debian Wheezy machine that works get DHCP leases without any problems, and have different MAC addresses. I also asked my ISP about this, when I had them on the line to bring up my new cable modem. They said any MAC address is fine. Just power the cable modem down for 30 seconds first. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130807164822.GA7727@tuzo
