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Why would Windows 95 and Mac OS X display different IP addresses for the same connection?

Asked by Perplexed1 in Miscellaneous Networking, Appletalk, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

I run Windows 95 at work.  I cannot change this, because of the somewhat peculiar needs of my employer.  The machine's primary function is to control an IDN network running DOS-based software that barely tolerates Windows 95.  

But my employer also wants cable modem access.  Road Runner is our ISP and they adamantly (and wisely) refuse to support 95 to any degree.  

The Windows 95 machine (pretty much an out-of-the-box Dell Optiplex GX110) has developed (apparently spontaneously) an inability to browse the internet with either Netscape 7.0 or IE 5.5.  However, it can get email, use PCAnywhere, and get upddates from Symantec.  When I use winipcfg to renew and release IP Addresses, I consistently get the same IP, Gateway and Subnet Mask each time I renew.

However when I plug my PowerBook into the cable modem (there's no hub, and only one IP address has been purchased), the IP, Gateway and Subnet addresses are all different from what the Windows machine tells me.  Again, though, each time I release-and-renew, I get the same values as the last time I did it on the Mac.

How can this be?  At home, when I have physically disconnected a Windows machine and plugged my Mac in, the Mac assumed the IP address the Windows machine previously used.  And when I have plugged them both in after purchasing additional IP addresses, they have at least shared the same subnet and gateway.  

Any help you could give would be fabulous. :)
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