Registering MAC address

brooklyn · **Posted:** Sat 08-14-2004 8:39PM

Ok so i have a new mobo and decided to register the onboard LAN before returning next weekend. The Realtek 10/100/1000 MAC went just fine. The NVidia 10/100 southbridge MAC failed. I tried in both IE and Mozilla. Any ideas why the Nvidia LAN failed to be registered?

robertd · **Posted:** Sat 08-14-2004 9:35PM

if i understand the problem correctly...

different hardware = different id = different mac address
give helpdesk the new mac address, that should solve it.

brooklyn · **Posted:** Sat 08-14-2004 10:57PM

what the hell did you just say. I know it's two different MACs. I was trying to register 2 macs and the nvidia kept giving me a failed error.

WhtHawk · **Posted:** Sun 08-15-2004 6:04AM

If your running WinXP, it bridges the connections by default, under the same MAC address.

GenPFault · **Posted:** Sun 08-15-2004 9:57AM

Weird, I don't rember seeing that auto-bridging behavior with my laptop. Does it only do that if both interfaces are wired?

WhtHawk · **Posted:** Sun 08-15-2004 5:34PM

My laptop auto-bridged the Wired and Wireless connections, as did my desktop while I had two NICs. It could be somthing weird, but in any case I disabled the bridging and it works fine, but I did have to register the wireless and wired cards seperately.

Brandito · **Posted:** Tue 10-19-2004 10:50PM

WhtHawk wrote:

My laptop auto-bridged the Wired and Wireless connections, as did my desktop while I had two NICs. It could be somthing weird, but in any case I disabled the bridging and it works fine, but I did have to register the wireless and wired cards seperately.

this causes a loop back effect for the network that will bring it to its knees. Please don't do this.

I say f* the MAC registration. Go up to a network printer... get its mac... turn it off. Change your Mac to its Mac. Boom. Your the printer. I am joking of course... kind of... err I shouldn't have logged in...

Mee · **Posted:** Tue 10-19-2004 11:04PM

Brandito wrote:

WhtHawk wrote:

My laptop auto-bridged the Wired and Wireless connections, as did my desktop while I had two NICs. It could be somthing weird, but in any case I disabled the bridging and it works fine, but I did have to register the wireless and wired cards seperately.

this causes a loop back effect for the network that will bring it to its knees. Please don't do this.

I say f* the MAC registration. Go up to a network printer... get its mac... turn it off. Change your Mac to its Mac. Boom. Your the printer. I am joking of course... kind of... err I shouldn't have logged in...

loop back effect?

zkissane · **Posted:** Wed 10-20-2004 7:31AM

I think IT automatically shuts you down if it detects the XP bridge on your machine.

It never "autobridged" my two NICs on my motherboard, even if I had both of them plugged in. I did manually bridge them once to see what it would do, but only because I had confused bridging with channel bonding.

Dissension · **Posted:** Wed 10-20-2004 9:08AM

I was wondering, would it make a difference at all if the network here was upgraded to gigabit lan? Pretty much all new Motherboards/network cards have it now.

GenPFault · **Posted:** Wed 10-20-2004 11:29AM

But what pair of people have storage subsystems capable of 120MB/s+ sustained throughput?

Mee · **Posted:** Wed 10-20-2004 11:36AM

and who has the millions it would take to upgrade everything to gigabit?

Hardcore Goat · **Posted:** Wed 10-20-2004 1:10PM

Mee wrote:

and who has the millions it would take to upgrade everything to gigabit?

me

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