They go off the network mac address that you're sending them; many devices
let you spoof anything you want.
If you can still boot the old one get it's mac address and spoof it on the
new one.

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:33 AM, keith smith <klsmith2020@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Last night, after 6 years of good loyal service, my D-Link router died.  I
> just happened to have a never used 2 year old Netgear router in my closet.
> I hooked it up and everything was fine at first. I have a static IP and it
> changed.  I called Cox and was told I needed to configure my router to tell
> them what my IP is.  I'm not a network guru, so this hit me kind of
> strange.  I thought they assigned IP's.
>
> Any thoughts on this are much appreciated.
>
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> Keith Smith
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