I did that once with a bunch or tranzeos. Works good. of course, having a switch up on a tower isnt practical. I'm sure there must be a registry entry for the dhcp timeout on windoze somewhere?
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 5:37 PM, John Valenti <vale...@lir.msu.edu> wrote: > Justin, > I would think you would want to have it setup to just switch quickly to a > static address via profile or script or something. > > But perhaps another solution would be to use a switch or hub? If your > windows computer is plugged into that (rather than directly into a radio), > it will keep ethernet carrier and not want to look for a new address every > time you switched radios. So it would just keep using the autoassigned one. > (I think) > > I don't use Mikrotik much, I vaguely remember it uses a program that > manages radios without using IP addressing? Perhaps that is why your auto > assigned 169. address is of any value. Almost all the radios I've used > (Trango, Tranzeo, StarOS) you have to use a specific subnet (not auto > assigned) to talk to it. So I started out with a system that let me rapidly > switch between a few statics and dhcp. > > Hope that helps. > > On Aug 20, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Justin Wilson wrote: > > > The whole thing is windows takes so long if there is no DHCP server > available. For example, plug into a fresh Mikrotik with no configuration. > How long does Windows take to time out if it is set to DHCP? I have timed > this at 1.5 minutes. My mac only takes 17 seconds to say “hey there is no > DHCP server I will auto assign a 169 IP”. What I am looking for is a way to > tell Windows don’t wait 1.5 minutes before you assign a 169 IP. Only wait > 20 seconds or whatever. > > > > Sure you can assign a static IP and lessen this time, but assigning > that IP takes time to do and undo. > > > > The best solution I have seen so far is Barnes’s suggest for a > program that lets you change networking profiles. I was hoping someone knew > of a registry key you could edit. Something like DHCP_TIMEOUT=20s. Instead > of DHCP_TIMEOUT=120s. > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >
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