[G4] OS X connection problem solved - maybe

[Perry The Cynic]

--On Wednesday, October 13, 2004 8:31 PM -0700 "Dennis B. Swaney" 
<romad at cncnet.com> wrote:

> A friend of mine with the same ISP gave me a couple of different DNS
> numbers to plug in and they worked! I can now connect from OS X on my G4
> iMac. Here is the strange part: When I connect from the G4 iMac running
> OS X, I'm assigned an IP address that starts with 207 every time.
> However, the G3 iMac running OS 9.1 seems to always be assigned an IP
> address that starts with 69! Are IP addresses assigned according to the
> operating system that you are using?

Macs remember what address they were assigned (from a DHCP server) last 
time, and ask for it again. Some DHCP servers also remember things at their 
end and prefer to hand the same address again to the same computer (to 
reduce service disruption). So this may just be a coincidence (i.e. it's 
got nothing to do with computer type).

Cheers
  -- perry
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Perry The Cynic                                             perry at cynic.org
To a blind optimist, an optimistic realist must seem like an Accursed Cynic.
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