Xbox Needs More Authenticity For Mac Address Error

First thing's first. What is a MAC address? You can have a MAC address even though the Xbox One is not an Apple product. MAC is short for media access control address and is the unique identifier to connect your device to the network.

Then in the 'To This MAC Address' box, type in the MAC address for the primary Xbox 360. Click the ADD button. Repeat this procedure for the Xbox 2 using a different IP address (such as 192.168.1.111).

A lot of universities use them to make sure that you're actually a student on campus and to track you down if you commit an infraction on their network. Just something to keep in mind. I know what a MAC address is. How do I get it?

OK, set up your Xbox One like you normally would, let the set up fail and then use the troubleshooter. It'll show you the MAC address. What you're looking for will say 'Set Up Network.' Redditor Chicago31 explained it best here: For anyone wondering, mess around with the setting up a network options. The menus are all similar but different, so fail a test and try to find anything about changing network settings or setting up a network. I went to set up a network, gave it a one character name, failed a test, and then the screen gave me my MAC address. All of this will happen before the update (cause the update is coming from the Internet you cannot connect to.

Still not working.Now what? Unfortunately this has now fallen into the realm of your university's IT department.

Some colleges and universities do things a bit differently and you may have to contact them so they can manually authorize your device. This could be because your university is overly protective, or just doesn't recognize consoles out of the box. It could take a couple of days for the university to whitelist consoles. Also, it is day 1, so keep that in mind. Servers are going to be super busy today, especially with the release update and people contacting for technical issues.

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Many people that the Xbox and Xbox 360 will not obtain an IP address from a Mac running Internet Sharing using DHCP. (Apparently some other devices have the same problem, but I don't have any of them to test with.) One workaround is to simply set the Xbox to use a static IP, DNS server(s), etc. That will certainly work, but it may be inconvenient and is definitely inelegant. This hint will allow your Xbox to obtain its IP, DNS info, and so on from the Mac using DHCP.

You need to have administrator privileges on the Mac in question, and the procedure is different on 10.4 vs. (Presumably older systems were similar to 10.4, but I haven't tested on anything older than 10.4.10.).

10.4: I haven't had much time to interact with the 10.4 machine I have access to, so I haven't tested this as much. Some variation on this procedure may be necessary to get the change to stick -- in particular, you may need to perform it more than once, or start and/or stop Internet Sharing before performing it. Also, the restart at the end may be unnecessary (though you do need to start and stop Internet Sharing somehow). Please post your experience in the comments, if someone hasn't already. • Start Internet Sharing if it's not already running. • Open NetInfo Manager, located in /Applications » Utilities.

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Authenticate as an administrator using the lock icon in the lower-left. • Navigate to the /config/dhcp node (so that dhcp is selected in the browser pane). • In the lower pane, find the reply_threshold_seconds property and change its value from 4 to 0.

• Quit NetInfo Manager and then restart your Mac. • After the restart, open NetInfo Manager again and confirm that reply_threshold_seconds is still 0. 10.5: The following procedure is confirmed to work as written. Enabling mac address for spectrum internet.

• Start Internet Sharing if it's not already running. • In Terminal, type cp /etc/bootpd.plist /tmp/bootpd.plist • Stop Internet Sharing. • Open /tmp/bootpd.plist for editing using TextEdit or whatever. • Locate this section of the file, near the end: reply_threshold_seconds 4 • Change the value 4 to 0.

• In Terminal, type sudo cp /tmp/bootpd.plist /etc • Start Internet Sharing. • If you want to, check that your change to /etc/bootpd.plist hasn't been reverted.

[ robg adds: There wasn't an Xbox 360 under the tree this year, so I haven't tested this one.]. Actually it doesn't seem to be a bug. It looks like Internet Sharing before to enable the sharing looks for the file /etc/bootpd.list.

If one is there it reads it, gets the interfaces configurations and global parameters (like reply_threshold_seconds), stores it somewhere and then updates the file only for the interfaces that have been modified (enabled/disabled, I believe). I discovered that because by mistake I didn't stop InternetSharing before to modify bootpd.plist. When later I stopped it bootpd.plist got deleted. Then it has been created again with the default OSX value once I activated Internet Sharing again.