W. Chris Shank on Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:50:05 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] OS X Question


But I also see this problem connecting to a Seimens SpeedStream wireless
router and the windows laptops wakeup and get their IP address back just
fine.


> On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:05:47AM -0500, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
>> At 9:17 AM -0500 2/21/03, W.Chris Shank wrote:
>> >it's my home lan - an SMC barricade. It works great until the iBook
>> goes into sleep mode (when battery is disconnected) - i also tested
>> it with the wired ethernet and that will also lose it's IP once it
>> sleeps. the airport still sees the network after waking - it just
>> doesn't get a new IP address. this problem also occurred on a
>> >speedstream access point.
>>
>> 	If you are seeing it with ethernet as well, then it's not
>> Airport - it's something much lower level OR it's your DHCP server.
>>
>> 	What version of Mac OS X are you using?
>
> Yes, it sounds like something very low-level (i.e. not an Airport
> hardware/software problem).  I doubt it's the OS, unless it's a
> very old version of Mac OS X (pre 10.1).
>
> If your SMB Barricade is giving you problems on both the wired and
> wireless ethernet ports, I'd suspect that, not OS X.  I've used OS X
> 10.1 and 10.2.x for about nine months now, and I've *never* had a
> problem like you're describing.  I seriously doubt that there's a
> software problem with the OS, and I haven't heard about any os
> extensions that would muck with the IOKit on waking to the degree
> you've described.
>
> Z.
>
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