Chris
Has the router been reset, or has someone altered the DHCP server settings on the router? A DHCP lease has a lease period associated with it; if the lease is exceeded without the lease being renewed then the DHCP server will simply cancel the lease and release that IP address back into the pool of available addresses. It could be that your router has somehow got its lease period set to something silly like '5 minutes', say. As long as the machines are connected this will work as fine as every 2.5 minutes the computer will negotiate a renewal of the lease. Once it's turned off, of course, the lease will quickly expire.
Apologies if you already know and have check all this stuff....
Tom Burke
On 16 Aug 2004, at 14:30, Christopher Phillips wrote:
my farallon netline broadband gateway/4s has been functioning trouble free for something like four years. Recently, it's started revoking DHCP leases unless both my and Jeanette's computers are awake and connected. Anyone seen anything like this before?
Having to have both machines turned on kind of defeats half the point of having a dedicated hardware router rather than just running some software on one of them. :(
Both macs are running 10.3.5 with all the latest software updates, and my cable provider is telewest, not that I'd expect either of those points to make any difference..
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