On Wed, 25 Feb 2015, Ed Vance wrote to Ben Ritchey:

 BR> It simply means when DHCP assigns that MAC an IP it's matched to 
 BR> whatever you reserve for it, or "Static" per se. i.e. MAC A:B:C:D 
 BR> set to 192.168.1.nnn

 EV> My MAC has 6 groups and one of them is over 255,

what do you mean "over 255"?? MACs are 6 groups of 2 characters
0-9a-f... if you are seeing 6 groups with 4 characters of 0-9a-f, then you
are seeing an IPv6 address... both generally use the ':' (colon) character
to split the groups...

 EV> I don't think the XP box would like one of the numbers in the IP 
 EV> Address being 256 or over?

if it was coded correctly, modulo (aka clock) arithmetic would be
applied... 256 would be 0, 257 would be 1, 266 would be 10... in other
words, they would wrap back to zero each time the passed 255... this is
also known as remainder arithmetic ;) 

 EV> I can't remember the name right now, but remember reading about 
 EV> that in a Kim Komando newsletter some time ago.

 BR> Sounds like a Proxy server or something {shrug}

 EV> I looked it up, it is called OPENDNS.
 EV> I'd still think BELL TEL wouldn't like my changing the DNS
 EV> settings.??? 

they can't stop you... the best they can do is to block access to external
(outside their network) DNS servers... i never use my ISP's DNS servers...
i always use one of the groups of public DNS servers... i don't use opendns
because of their filtering of certain addresses and/or domains... if i want
something filtered, i'll do it myself so that i know that it is done
properly and by my standards ;) 

 EV> I do apprciate all the help everyone is giving me.

 EV> Last night before I switched from the Limited Users Account to a
 EV> Admin Account, I unplugged the CAT-5 wire from the back of the XP
 EV> box, and while in the Admin Account I plugged it back in and saw a
 EV> strange mix of numbers in the IP Address.

"strange mix"?? can you provide an example? it may be that you
were seeing what's known as a local-link address... they start with 169...

 EV> After playing with it a while, I right-clicked the LAN icon on the
 EV> Network Connection page in CP and Disabled the LAN, and then
 EV> Enabled the LAN a short time later, and lo and behold it gave me a
 EV> x.x.x.100 IP Address in the Status window. It sure made me happy
 EV> seeing that dot 100 and now Wallwatcher and Getlog are working as
 EV> they should.

basically what you did was to force your networking to drop the existing
lease and then request a new one from the DHCP server in your modem/router
thingee...

)\/(ark