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

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, misha wrote:

> 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.

I hope the problem doesn't continue, because this particular Linksys 
device has become one of my favorite piece of equipment.  Noiseless, 
useful, never fails (well, until now), and, of course, it has nice 
blinkenlights.  As best as I can tell, the only thing that was going 
wrong here was that it was refusing to give out new IP addresses via 
dhcp (that which had an address was connected and working just 
fine).  There appears to be a firmware upgrade on the linksys site, 
but that will apparently require an intricate routine involving a 
Windows box (since the Mac is explicitly not supported, and I don't
think I know of a download tool for this that works with LInux).

jking

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