Re: [MLUG] linksys WAP/router dhcp problems...

[misha <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Jonathan King wrote:

> Now, the good news this morning was that my wife's un-upgraded iBook took
> a 169.bogus address this morning, presumably when its lease from the 
> linksys on its previous IP expired.  Since nothing had changed on that
> machine at all, I was confident that it must be the linksys somehow 
> getting confused (although this had never happened before).  So I 
> power-cycled that, and, voila!  Joy was restored.  Of course, I'd still 
> like to know what *it's* problem was, but the immediate emergency has 
> passed.

Now that you mention it, I remember dealing with some Linksys routers 
that would develop sudden weird problems or even noise (!) until someone 
power-cycled them. It doesn't seem to happen very often, and exchange 
for a new one seems to be the best remedy if problems continue.

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MK

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