This may not be relevant in you case, but when I was setting up my home network with a different router, I ran into a lot of problems getting IP addresses re-assigned after they were taken over by other pieces of hardware in between periods when my X60T was online. One of the key problems I had was that I was switching back and forth from a wired connection on my dock to a wireless connection. This meant that my X60T MAC address was constantly flipping back and forth. Often, the flipping would result in long periods (5-15 minutes) when I could not access the wireless connection no matter what I did with Access Connections. My assumption, based on error messages at the time, was that my Thinkpad was tryiing to connect to the old IP address it had been assigned via DHCP, but that because the MAC addresses didn't match, it couldn't do so.
I am sure that my router was partly to blame, but I also found that the problem went away entirely once I dumped Access Connections in favour of the built-in wireless networking tool that comes with XP SP3. And indeed, I have found that connections resume more quickly, and that I also got rid of the totally annoying habit that my version of Access Connections (the most up-to-date at the time, which was about 3-4 months ago) had of constantly using up CPU cycles to check on something or other and then writing files to the hard drive that I had to track down in order to exclude from my virus checking software. I still do not know exactly what was going on, but the whole experience convinced me that Access Connections must be a very poorly written piece of software, or that it must be optimized for Vista/Windows 7 instead of XP. There are only one or two special features that Access Connections offers that cannot be emulated by the built-in Windows software, and my recommendation would be to uninstall it unless you need to use those one or two special functions. Then see if your multiple IP address problem goes away. Phil. [email protected] <> wrote on May 29, 2010 16:23 (EDT): > This morning when I got up, there was a message about IP > address conflict. I clicked okay and everything was fine. > This has happened before but I'm not sure what to make of it. > > [....] > > Is there anything in the X300 or T41p that might be causing > this? Or is it more likely the router (Linksys WRT55AG)? At > first I wondered if the Access Connections error was leaving > the X300 disconnected, and for some reason trying to get a > new number ta 9:22:39 (I didn't click away the error until > about noon). But the 9:22:39 error (re: 101) refers to the > X300's MAC address (9D) and the 9:22:43 error (re: .100) > refers to a conflict with the T41p's MAC address (2B). _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
