>I'm accessing the Net through a RoadRunner cable connection. It is
>routed through a MacSense router to a 2400 w/OS8.6 and a Win95
>laptop.
>
>While the Win95 box maintains its connection without a problem, the
>2400 will often act as if the connection is barely awake...or
>disconnected. This usually happens after I haven't used it for
>awhile, e.g., overnight, sleep...or in some cases just being away
>from the keyboard for awhile.
>
>I've tried setting TCP/IP for both "active" and "load only when
>needed", but it doesn't seem to make any difference. It's not
>resetting the DHCP connection, though sometimes I can 'Renew DHCP'
>and get things going, other times even the connection to the router
>crawls and I can't bring up the router interface via Netscape...but
>the Win95 path is unaffected.
>
>It seems to be a Mac problem, but I can't figure out what other
>setting might be causing a problem.
>
>Thoughts anyone?
What MacOS are you running? What version of Open Transport?
The Open Transport software included with MacOS 8.6 and earlyier have
known DHCP problems. It just plain sucks. Use newer OpenTransport, or
if you have 8.6 get a control pannel called 'TCP/IP Options' and set
it to always release DHCP.
All those high spped providers tune their DHCP servers for the
bronken-ness of Windows DHCP, breaking all the other perfectly
compliant DHCP clitens on other systems (MacOS, Solaris, Irix, Linux,
BSD and AIX to name a few)
You can always complain to your high spped provider about their DHCP
server not being standards compliant, but they'll just file your
complaint under 'Raving fanatical Mac user' and won't give it another
thought.
My high speed DSL provider, TDS metrocom, has the same busted DHCP
server. So, I had to reak the DHCP client on my firewall box. It
requests a lease refresh every 30 seconds. Keep their DHCP server on
it toes :-) I kept this up until they asked why I was doing it, about
two hours of arguing later, I had a static IP :-)
--
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