on 22/01/01 23:48, Peter Liethen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> 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 :-)
Peter,
What firewall box are you using? I'm using an Linksys Etherfast Cable / DSL
router. Any chance that I could turn the DHCP lease refresh to 30 seconds
too?
-Laurent.
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