02-26-15 11:22 mark lewis wrote to Ed Vance about IP Address Changes-Wh

 ml> {at}MSGID: 
 ml>  On Wed, 25 Feb 2015, Ed Vance wrote to Ben Ritchey:
Howdy! Again Mark,

 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,

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

I was confused again, I was thinking that a Hex Number in the MAC
Address that had two letters, was greater than 255, DUH, I forgot
255 is Hex FF, what I saw was something like BD in the MAC Address.
Sorry - I guess I'll never get close to becoming Mister Know-It-All.

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

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

Thanks for that.

 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.???

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

Looks like I got another Search to do to see about 'Public DNS Servers'
and if I would be interested in them.
Probably not, because I don't run any servers here.

 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.

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

Yes!, it did start with 169.
Does a Local-LInk-Address of 169 settle down to a 192 number if left
alone?  Thanks.

 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.

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

Yep, but I 'had' to open a Admin Account to do that procedure.
I ain't figured out how to get the other Control Panel options to be
put on my XP desktop so I can right-click - RunAs... on it as I did
for the Clock Option, when I want to see the Seconds display in the
Clock window.

C:\windows\system32\timedate.cpl  is what the shortcut Properties are
set at, and I use that icon when I want to see the Computer Clock Time
so I can adjust a portable clock in my room and carry it around the
house to set my clocks to the correct time.

... Satisfaction comes from a Satisfactory.
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