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<blockquote data-quote="EvenStranger" data-source="post: 1315757" data-attributes="member: 181804"><p>I believe it's tied to the DHCP addressing on your router. If you reboot your computer and it grabs a different address than it had before, the old address may not have cleared out of the address table yet, so, to distinguish itself from the other IP record still in the table, the Mac OS throws a number after the name, giving it a unique name to avoid any conflicts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EvenStranger, post: 1315757, member: 181804"] I believe it's tied to the DHCP addressing on your router. If you reboot your computer and it grabs a different address than it had before, the old address may not have cleared out of the address table yet, so, to distinguish itself from the other IP record still in the table, the Mac OS throws a number after the name, giving it a unique name to avoid any conflicts. [/QUOTE]
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