[OT] IP Problems in Windoze

[Patrick Allen]

Paul King wrote:

> The problem of not hooking up still persists when I turn off the wireless and 
> switch to cat 5. To get rid of the unusual IP, I run ipconfig or reboot.

Strange that your not automagically being assigned a new IP when you switch 
connections.  But Windows networking is strange and I can't claim to fully 
understand everything going on under the hood.

The "ipconfig /relase" then "ipconfig /renew" commands often come in very handy 
for me.  (So much so that I added a Command Prompt shortcut to my Quick Launch)

There are ways of changing the IP Lease time.  You might want to look into that 
so that you won't have to manually release them.

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Patrick Allen
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