Found the privacy setting in the iPad, and was able to turn on the LAN access. Thank you very very much!
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There are two pieces to LAN / Wifi connection. On is an IP address of the device that sends the signal and MAC address of the device that receives the signal. Once you setup your LAN connection for the first time, your device gets registered by your router with its unique ID number (MAC address). Router’s DHCP assigns IP address for your device many times. In order to start fresh and reset all network settings for your device you will have to change MAC address, this way router will recognize it as new device. Each device can generate new MAC address.
Sorry Peter, that’s not how it works and is bad advice.
A device’s MAC address (set in the Network Interface Card NIC) is typically fixed and defined by the manufacturer (I acknowledge that some specialist devices allow the MAC address to be user configured but these are quite rare.)
When a device is setup to use a DHCP assigned IP address, the device broadcasts to the router and requests an IP address. The router then assigns one (from the DHCP pool) are records that IP against the device’s MAC address.
The leasing of that IP address is typically 24 hours, after that if the device is no longer active the router may release the IP back to the pool so it can be reused.
On most routers, there is a user option to “fix” this reservation indefinitely then the IP address does not change even after reboots … (this is what I do, rather than configuring the device itself to have a static IP address).
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Regards,
Carl
After I wrote my post I realized that I made a mistake. You are right about that MAC address is generated by the device, but it can be changed.
MAC address is hard coded as far as I know.
The Mac address of the network card is but you can spoof one in the OS.
My experience with MAC addresses comes with setting up VM (Virtual Machines). I had to reset network settings for Windows 10. Either way, MAC address is software generated and some vendors may restrict access to it. Other possibility is to remove registered device from router or reset router to factory settings and start over.
This.
Simple and effective.
