You mean off-list, not off-line, I suppose.

As for this mailing list -- I think we'd have been banned.  It is common for
folks to ignore threads they're not into -- I ignore about 50% of euglug
threads these days!

Ben


On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:09 PM, dooger watts <[email protected]> wrote:

> Am most grateful for all your thoughtful responses--and you've increased my
> understanding considerably.
> As for having done this offline, that's kinda how I thought it would go and
> why I suggested it in my first post. Hate to aggravate people here.
> Best,
> m
>
> Ben Barrett wrote:
>
>> If you could be sure you were setting a static IP which was *outside* the
>> range of addresses being handed out by the primary, that should work,
>> however you don't know what the primary settings are, so I guess just
>> experiment.  Now if your daily loss of connectivity is indeed due to a
>> failure of the primary to renew the dhcp lease it gave to the secondary,
>> setting static should avoid that problem, however who knows what other daily
>> problems the primary router has?  It could be resetting due to power
>> fluctuations on the same ciruit that kick on at that time each day, or
>> possibly some other network traffic jams it up.  If you can, try to ensure
>> that the primary device has its latest firmware (shouldn't be any need for
>> custom firmware, just get the latest from the mfg).
>> Well glad I could help.  From the looks of this thread's activity, we
>> coulda done this offline, but maybe my explanations will help someone in the
>> archives.... death to "connection not found"!
>>
>> Ben
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 9:00 PM, dooger watts <[email protected] <mailto:
>> [email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>    Sweet.  Can't wait to try this in the morning (when my lease expires).
>>
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