Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Fokke Nauta Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Can't connect to laptop Date: Wed, 7 May 2025 10:59:24 +0200 Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net vv/RtLdkuGmlNWHGhs+oAAQF4/niE60Q7tVmWUsgMSFCCBqBCy Cancel-Lock: sha1:lNA5yu3XSV60q9IAGhlrPMvW8B8= sha256:UILGqdCkNHQpBGEcZUIxuZYe+BK4dZQcUNhT6/flAvs= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.15.1 Content-Language: nl In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-11:19120 On 05/05/2025 14:59, Frank Slootweg wrote: > Fokke Nauta wrote: >> On 05/05/2025 12:13, Andy Burns wrote: >>> Fokke Nauta wrote: >>> >>>> Andy Burns wrote: >>>> >>>>> Though let the O/P be aware that changing from wifi to wired ethernet >>>>> will change the machine's IP address for pinging. >>>> >>>> No. Every machine gets it's IP address from the router, depending on >>>> their MAC address. >>> And it'll have a different MAC address for the WiFi NIC compared to the >>> Ethernet NIC >> >> What's a NIC? > > For questions like this, I advise to first use the 'define:' search > term in Google (i.e. in this case 'define:NIC') or/and search in > Wikipedia. In most cases, that gives the answer. > >>> Or are you saying your router allows you to allocate the same IP to >>> multiple MAC addresses (which would be unusual)? >> >> Ofcourse not. Each machine gets a different IP address from the router, >> based on ther MAC address. > > Don't be a wise-guy! Andy's *point* is that for a Wi-Fi or Ethernet > connection on the same computer, the MAC address will be different, That's right. > so > unless you change the MAC->IP allocation, the IP address will be > different or no IP address will be assigned. It's not possible to connect her laptop by cable. Fokke