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 11:03:35 +0200 Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net EiPDuj+jW7+gu2PRNuGIqwZgjPJNMdF5dkb+jM9xOy8nbvcT9T Cancel-Lock: sha1:AwgCgAaqkCbOC76LTuBwmbnF3b0= sha256:Mb6OV9rhunU4Rhf45wQDjHHs2ZqeEnjkL6Pp79KBYy4= 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-11:19126 On 05/05/2025 17:49, ...winston wrote: > Fokke Nauta wrote: >> On 05/05/2025 12:44, Java Jive wrote: >>> On 2025-05-05 11:01, Fokke Nauta wrote: >>>> On 03/05/2025 00:12, Andy Burns wrote: >>>>> Graham J wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Can you connect all the computers via Ethernet cable directly to >>>>>> the router, for testing? >>>>> >>>>> 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. >>> >>> In your normal set up, yes, but if, say for testing purposes, you >>> connect a PC by cable instead of by WiFi, or vice versa, >> >> All pc's are connected by cable. Both laptops are connected by wifi >> from the AP. I'm not going to change that. >> >>> then the MAC address of the WiFi netcard will be different from that >>> of the cable netcard, so there will no longer be any guarantee that >>> it will still have the IP address you expect it to have when >>> connected by whatever method is usual for that particular PC. >>> >> >> Fokke > > Does your earlier statement(router assigns ip address for each devices > mac address) indicate? >  => in your router you: >  a. set a range of ip addresses that can be dispensed >  b. the range of dispensable ip addresses is equal or greater than the > number of devices that can be assigned an ip address >  c. each device is always assigned the exact same(i.e. fixed) ip address Indeed, depending on their MAC. >  d. router is configured/eanbled for mac address filtering where only > allowed devices' mac address receive an ip address > Fokke