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SleepWaking on 11 August 2008
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largedarryl said:
SleepWaking said:
largedarryl said:
SleepWaking said:
largedarryl said:
SleepWaking said:
largedarryl said:
Also adding to my comment, your internet carrier may also only allow so many MAC addresses registered.

Does either your laptop or PC support custom set MAC addresses? If so, you could change the MAC address on one of those and see if they get assigned an IP address.

MAC is normally disabled but I tried it with enabling it and filling in the correct MAC, didn't work.

 

Do you mean your MAC address is preset?  The MAC address cannot be "disabled", it is a crucial piece of information in the IP protocol.  Do you know where the DHCP server is?  Is the your modem a modem/switch or a modem/router?

Filling in the correct MAC on what?  I do not know if you can manually set the MAC address of a 360.

I mean MAC filtering disabled, meaning letting everything true, and I meant the fill in the correct 360 MAC address in the gateway settings. (it's a modem and router in one).

 

(oh and you can change the MAC of the 360 if you wanted)

 

So if it is a router, the problem will be with the routers settings.  Since the a router is a DHCP host, there shouldn't be anything stopping it from handing out IP addresses except for settings.

 

Not entirely true, my PC's are just working fine, but I can't connect my 360's. It's too bad I can't do a ipconfig all on them.

Edit: you can test the connection on your xbox, everytime it fails while trying to get a valid IP adres (sometimes the router gives me 169.xxx.x.xxx, meaning something is wrong with the leasing, but I should have done everything to overcome that problem.)

I know your PC's are working fine, but if you can change one of their MAC addresses to something new, you will see if there is a problem with what the DHCP host settings (not all NIC drivers support manually set MAC addresses).

The 169.x.x.x is what is assigned when nothing is received from the DHCP server (default address).

You can also try setting the MAC address of the 360 to the same as your PC, then unplug your PC and plug in the 360 instead.  This is a way of (hopefully) verifying that your 360 ethernet port isn't broken.

 

also done that.