From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.18] (account lgrosenthal [192.168.100.18] verified) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2247447 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:11:33 -0500 Message-ID: <4B8B2254.6070905@2rosenthals.com> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:11:32 -0500 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090827 MultiZilla/1.8.3.5g SeaMonkey/1.1.18 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] DHCP: how to force a lease renewal ? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey, Leon... On 02/28/10 06:46 pm, Leon D. Zetekoff thus wrote : > On 2/28/2010 2:54 PM, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: >> Hi, Jordan... >> >> On 02/28/10 02:13 pm, J R FOX thus wrote : >>> After using fixed-IP DSL for many years, I'm still pretty new to >>> DHCP, which I previously only used as a Guest at others' residences >>> or offices. The other day, I lost the internet connection towards >>> the end of a few-hours session. *Every* attempted URL then became a >>> 'Page Not Found.' This hardly ever happened with the fixed IP + >>> DSL, and when it did it was very obvious that it was some major >>> event, like the local or regional AT&T broadband service being >>> down. (I think that is much more common around S.D., with TWC, >>> where someone will dig up a cable somewhere in the area, and then >>> Kablooey.) > >> Under Windows, it's nigh on impossible to do this *without* the >> command prompt (if someone has a way, please let me know - Access >> Connections, perhaps, if running a ThinkPad?). Just go to a command >> prompt and enter: >> >> ipconfig /release >> ipconfig /renew >> >> It should come back with your new address information after the >> /renew operation. >> > > That is an easy way on Windoze. Under GUI depends on whit incarnation. > XP uou can RMB on the Wireless or wired network connections icon and > use REPAIR. Another way is to RMB in the same icon and click STATUS > and then click on the SUPPORT tab and then click the REPAIR button. > Here you can see the results of your actions. Vista is impossible. > Haven't seen W7 yet. > I forgot all about the "repair" thing, probably because I've never quite figured out what it's supposed to do. Every time I've clicked it, it hasn't (repaired), so I just ignore it. ;-) -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com visit my IT blog www.2rosenthals.net/wordpress -------------------------------------------------------------