Bill_MI
Bill In Michigan
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Royal Oak, MI
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Re: Westell 2100 Modem and a LinkSyS BEFSR41 Router:
Yep. So the BEFSR41 WAN looks like another PC connecting "automatically" (also known as DHCP). Usually, the modem shouldn't care whether it's your PC or the BEFSR41 getting the address.
You might try »Linksys FAQ »The Loooooooong Reset to the rescue and reconfigure the BEFSR41.
If it still doesn't pull an address, the reason could be a lot of things ranging from a bad port or cable (hardware) to needing the right hostname when pulling the address. Cable modems/systems use network card MAC address and the BEFSR41 can clone a MAC (»Linksys FAQ »How and Why Do I Clone a MAC?).
Sometimes a power cycle resets things. In the old days some customers actually had to call in their MAC address for their cable modems to work. I doubt you have anything this drastic. |
