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Article: Managing IP addresses now a priority: software lets operators reconfigure servers without rebooting system.
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- Cable World
- Article date:
- October 29, 2001
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When AT&T Broadband in Boston installed some new servers a few weeks ago, some of its high-speed data customers lost service.
While accounts were being shifted, files containing thousands of machine access code (MAC) addresses-the codes that identify individual customers' computers--apparently did not make the transition to the new servers, and those computers were denied Internet protocol (IP) addresses and access to AT&T's network. For some customers with multiple computers, an AT&T Broadband spokesman said, it meant one computer got access while another didn't.
What AT&T was doing when its customers stopped getting appropriate IP addresses was fairly ...