On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:10:29 +0100
"Mortimer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> A friend asked my to investigate why his new router, a Zyxel
> P-660HW-T V2, (supplied by his business) wasn't allowing one of his
> PCs to work.
>
> I established that this PC, which is connected over Ethernet, isn't
> being given an IP address whereas another PC which connects over
> wireless is getting an IP address by DHCP. My own laptop failed in
> the same way to get an IP address over Ethernet but succeeded when
> connected over wireless.
>
> Unfortunately he didn't know his router's configuration password
> (he's going to get it tomorrow) so I couldn't investigate further.
Just hit the reset button and use the default password. :-)
> But does anyone know whether the router can be configured to apply
> MAC address filtering on Ethernet (as opposed to the normal case of
> on wireless) or whether DHCP can be enabled only for one interface
> (wireless) and not for another (Ethernet). Or can anyone think of
> anything else that could have been misconfigured so as to allow only
> wireless PCs to get IP addresses.
I can't think of any sensible reason that it would affect only one of
the LAN interfaces.
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