tonymuffin Wrote: > As mentioned already, the WAP is just that... an access point. It is > not being used as a router. Thus I could not see why unplugging that > would make any difference except possibly with the wireless Squeezebox > but certainly not with the wired ones that don't touch it.
Because even a WAP contains state information. A WAP is a switch. It knows what MACs are on each side of it. It can chose to route traffic to one side of it or the other. Or not. If it's got wrong state information, it can break your network. Even for items that seemingly don't have anything to do with it. Tony, we don't have time for an entire talk on how every piece of ethernet equipment works. Just power every thing connected to your computer system down, even if you don't think there's a good reason. State information lives in the damnest places, including the clock chip in your computer, which remains powered up even when you power the computer down. Let's hope we don't have to go there. -- Michaelwagner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23389 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
