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[netmation]

The bottom of my router has a MAC ID almost identical to the LAN MAC ID my firmware shows.  Only difference is the last number is 73 in the firmware instead of 74 on the bottom of the router.  Why the descrepancie on this?

[jason1722x]

lol..I was about to post the same topic. The last 2 digets on bottom of the router mac addy is AA but on wan it's A9.

why?

[Arvald]

the Router will have 2 MAC addresses.  1 WAN and 1 LAN.  I looked and mine are similarly close together.
you sure your reading the right one?

[netmation]

Yes reading the right one, looked at the WAN and LAN, they are not that simlar.

[davevt31]

The MAC address on the sticker on the bottom should be the one for your WAN connection, you can verify by looking at the Status > Device Info page when you log into the router.

[jason1722x]

The MAC address on the sticker on the bottom should be the one for your WAN connection, you can verify by looking at the Status > Device Info page when you log into the router.

Well it's not, the only way I've been able to set up my DHCP is to clone my computer's mac in manual setup under the Internet tab.
When I tried to enter the Mac addy , save , reboot I will net be able to reach my ISP.

UPDATE: After I entered the routers mac, saved, rebooted. I reset the cable modem and that did it. It kept my routers mac in wan.

[netmation]

On my the WAN is not close to the bottom of the router, though the LAN is close??

On the Status / Device Info screen.....
WAN – yy:yy:yy:yy:5E:5F
LAN - xx:xx:xx:xx:03:73
Wireless LAN – zz:zz:zz:zz:03:73

On the bottom of my router is a label that says:
MAC- xx:xx:xx:xx:03:74

The above is not a typo, the bottom of the router and the LAN in the Status screen is identical except for the last number.

[Fatman]

did you clone a PCs MAC address for your WAN connection?

The most relevant portion of a MAC address is actually the first 6 characters, those ID the vendor.  In the future if we are going to obscure MACs something like the below would be better.

aa:bb:cc:xx:xx:00

Where the aa:bb:cc portion is the real OUI from the MAC (this would have told me instantly if you had cloned your MAC cause it would have your interface vendors OUI not D-Links)

the xx:xx you can obfuscate, it really doesn't matter to us other than knowing that you have sequential MACs (which you should).

[netmation]

Yes I did clone my PC MAC to the WAN.  Still puzzled why the label on the bottom of the router has an almost identical MAC address as to what is the LAN MAC address in the firmware, execept for the last number?  Thanks for your help.

[Fatman]

Because we assign sequential MACs to this device, why would we assign them randomly, they are sequential.