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Originally Posted by stripes
Only way to find out is to replug and try it, so I'll be back in a few minutes.
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The suspense is killing me.
The cable system uses that identifier to uniquely identify the devices on the network. There is a limit to the number of devices that the cable system will allow to connect. When a machine starts up, it asks the cable system for an IP address to use and, the cable system uses the ethernet id to track which machine has which IP address.
It's supposed to allow two devices without having to wait for one to timeout, and even so, leaving the cable modem off for 20 hours (as you mentioned you tried) should have cleared any pre-existing entries.
The theory we're working on is that somehow that's not happening and the cable modem only wants to assign an IP address to the ID used by the G3. By telling the iMac to pretend it's got the same ID as the G3, we're testing out theory.
Cheers,
Mark