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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1780151" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>Hate to admit it but I am no closer to figuring this out than I was at the beginning of the thread. I do have the following suspicions though:</p><p>1. Since you cannot find a device or its associated MAC address (hardware based ID generated by the network card) it is likely that this internal IP address is generated for some router function/feature.</p><p>2. The mystery "feature" requiring this address is likely tied to the telephony features this router seems to have available. </p><p>3. If assumption 2 is correct that might explain why you cannot manually "turn off" this address. Being able to do so would likely disable some / all of the telephone features.</p><p></p><p>If any of these assumptions are correct then tech support should at the very least be able to tell you what it is for and the consequences of further attempt to turn it off. If they can't do that I would be forced to concluded that either:</p><p>1. They have not been trained on this issue and thus do not know the answer.</p><p>2. Someone knows the answer but it is not standard practice to release that information (perhaps for fear customers will look for other providers).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1780151, member: 131855"] Hate to admit it but I am no closer to figuring this out than I was at the beginning of the thread. I do have the following suspicions though: 1. Since you cannot find a device or its associated MAC address (hardware based ID generated by the network card) it is likely that this internal IP address is generated for some router function/feature. 2. The mystery "feature" requiring this address is likely tied to the telephony features this router seems to have available. 3. If assumption 2 is correct that might explain why you cannot manually "turn off" this address. Being able to do so would likely disable some / all of the telephone features. If any of these assumptions are correct then tech support should at the very least be able to tell you what it is for and the consequences of further attempt to turn it off. If they can't do that I would be forced to concluded that either: 1. They have not been trained on this issue and thus do not know the answer. 2. Someone knows the answer but it is not standard practice to release that information (perhaps for fear customers will look for other providers). [/QUOTE]
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