<font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">I am not assigning different IP-addresses, I use DHCP reservation, irrespective of the OS, I always get the same IP-address for a given MAC address. I have done this reservation for all my devices both on ethernet and wifi network.</font></font><div>
<br></div><div><font color="#3333ff" face="verdana, sans-serif">I did this so I know when my network is compromised.</font></div><div><font color="#3333ff" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#3333ff" face="verdana, sans-serif">This one goes to the Windows 8 mystery box.</font></div>
<div><font color="#3333ff" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#3333ff" face="verdana, sans-serif">-GG</font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,255);font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Miguel González Castaños <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:miguel_3_gonzalez@yahoo.es" target="_blank">miguel_3_gonzalez@yahoo.es</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On 23/11/2012 00:26, Rajiv Gunja wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Miguel,</font></font>
<div><font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">I do
not need to spoof the MAC, as I can always tell the router
to assign an IP whenever an OS requests for it.</font></font></div>
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</div><font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Maybe I'm
loosing something here but If you have the same desktop for
three different OSes, they share the same NIC therefore the same
MAC address, how are you assigning different IP addresses
depending on the OS in your DHCP server?<br>
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<div><font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">I need
to test out cold reboot as Jim suggested and see if that too
gives the same result.</font></font></div>
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<div><font color="#3333ff" face="verdana, sans-serif">I need to
figure out what Windows 8 is doing that is blocking that port
on the router. Windows 7 did not seem to do the same thing.</font></div>
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</div><font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Can't you
assign a static IP address to Windows 8? At least for testing.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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