>I've got two of these routers, one on cable, the other on DSL at my parents >house. Haven't seen this problem consistently, only infrequently. Usually >after an outage from the provider. Double check to see if you have the >latest firmware version, and, to minimize startup times for your computer, >use set ip addresses instead of DHCP. That way you don't have to wait for >the router to give you an IP address during boot-up. One other thing to try >before unplugging the router is to go to it's setup screen and tell it to >reboot if you can. > >Lee > > >On 07/16/02 6:34 AM, "A.Tuazon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Ok I bought an SMC 7004ABR and it's working great. Took me about 15 minutes >> to set it all up. However, last night when I set the whole thing up in OS >> X.1.5 I was able to surf the net right after. Then I shut down the computer >> for the night BUT NOT the router nor my DSL modem. This morning I powered >> up the computer and noticed it takes awhile for OS X.1.5 to finish booting. >> I logged in and when I tried to startup IE it sort of just hung waiting to >> get to home page. The same thing happened to my e-mail. The only way I was >> able to get it working properly was to shut down then unplug the router, >> plug it back in then restart the computer. Do I need to shut down the >> router as well when I shut down the system for the night?
I've got the same device...SMC 7004 ABR. Open Transport really works best either with PPP or a static IP. Mac OS will hang while it tries to get a DHCP address. If it can't get it, it uses Microsoft's APIPA range. If you see an address starting with 169.254.x.x and a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0 after you are stuck at the desktop for a while, Open Transport didn't get a DHCP lease and you are SOL. What I do is leave both the router and the DSL modem up at night. Also I have to say, it's best to assign your machines IP addresses rather than use DHCP. I am using Mac OS 8.6 on my Mac and it is very, very touchy about DHCP. Sounds like they didn't fix it in OS X, which doesn't make sense because it's a BSD and Linux uses DHCP well. The champ for DHCP, unfortunately, is Windows. With 2K in particular it just reaches out and grabs the lease very quickly. The way I have my SMC set up, I have the internal DHCP server giving out leases in the 192.168.2.150 to 192.168.2.254 range. Everything that gets a static IP gets one between 192.168.2.2 and 192.168.2.149. The SMC is great. They have just come out with the SMC Barricade Plus, which does more than just Network Address Translation, DHCP and simple firewalling. The new SMC also does Stateful Packet Inspection, which will catch and repel more kinds of attacks. SPI is kind of hard to explain...it's just BETTER. I'm going to grab one for myself soon. Ms. Geek -- online since 1987 -- Box 2273, Van Nuys, CA 91404-2273 http://www.msgeek.org/ -- Finally, a geek news site FOR US! Spam me and you pay! I'm in California! http://www.spamlaws.com/state/ca1.html o/ And she'll have fun fun fun 'til her daddy takes the T1 away...o/ -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
