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RE: [ECS] Cable modem / no IP address ? scott reston Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:02:59 -0500

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i have a cable modem and use winipcfg every once in a while to give someone my current
IP (it changes very rarely as the machine is always on). i don't have the output in
front of 
me to give an exact report, but i seem to remember that winipcfg reports 3 different
NIC entries: one that reads 0.0.0.0, one that reflects the ethernet card that interfaces
with the 
network within my house and one that reflects the correct information for the ethernet
card that connects to the cable modem. it could be that mark is parsing the first entry
in the 
winipcfg.out file and actually needs the 2nd (or possibly 3rd) entry. mark - i can email
you my winipcfg.out when i get home if you are interested.

scott reston
scott@therestons.com
http://therestons.com/scott


On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 08:09:50 -0600, Terry, Martin G Mr SAIC wrote:

>The cable companies description sounds like DHCP, or dynamically assigned IP
>addressing. 0.0.0.0 would indicate that he did not get an IP address
>however.
>
>You didn't mention, but from the description I would say he cannot
>communicate with the internet at all.

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