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   From: rcpj@panix.com (Pierre Jelenc)   
      
   Jonathan de Boyne Pollard   writes:   
   >    
   > Perhaps your DHCP server cannot tell them apart.  Do they erroneously    
   > have the same MAC addresses and names or something?   
      
   No, they are completely different.   
      
   > Perhaps you misconfigured your DHCP server.  Did you erroneously tell it    
   > to map two clients to a single static IP address?   
      
   I did not configure anything, I just unplugged the Mac laptop, which had    
   worked fine for years, and plugged in the Linux machine, then rebooted    
   everything (including the router, eventually.)   
      
   > If your router is your DHCP server, its WWW configuration interface    
   > (which you should be able to access from the machine whose network    
   > connectivity is working, after all) will tell you what MAC addresses    
   > each of its DHCP clients has.   
      
   I don't see anything like that in the configuration pages. I go to    
   http://192.168.1.1/ where I log in, and I get this menu (submenus    
   expanded):   
   Wizard Setup   
   Advanced Configurations   
       Router Password Change   
       Internet Security   
       NAT Applications   
       Remote Management   
       LAN Setup   
       Wireless Setup   
       WAN Setup   
       IPSec Setup   
   Maintenance   
       System Status   
       DSL Statistics   
       LAN Statistics   
       Wireless Statistics   
       WAN Statistics   
       Diagnostics   
       Firmware Upgrade   
       Factory Reset   
       Restart   
   Logout   
      
   Nowhere is there any listing of hardware or assigned IP addresses.   
      
   I tried to assign a fixed address with "ifconfig lan0 192.168.1.106" in    
   tcpexit.cmd so as to leave 105 free, but that ends in failure as well: the    
   106 address is assigned, but the net is still inaccessible (whether or not    
   the Linux box is plugged in.)   
      
   Pierre   
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