On Wed, 16 May 2007 14:07:38 -0500 "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You may want to check to see if the Windows machine is still doing > DHCP to get its information. Even though he has a static IP address, > the modem may still be configured to use DHCP, and provide a static > IP address that way. If you are using PPPoE, I would still expect > the same setup - you connect as if you were getting a dynamic IP > address, and always get the same static IP address as your DHCP lease. "They say" that it is using a standard DHCP request, but frankly I'm not convinced that they even know what DHCP is. Anyway, one of the first things that I tried was a DHCP request and it returned nothing at all. I tried it a few times, actually, with no response whatsoever. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
