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February 11th, 2004 13:00
Default gateway problem
I use my Inspiron 8200 wirelessly at home and at work. I have the 1180 mini-pci card (but am operating it with the 1300 drivers). [This problem happens with the 1180 drivers too].
At work, the DHCP addresses are 10.18.x.x. At home I use 192.168.1.x addresses. When I come to work, the card finds the correct gateway fine. But when I return home, the card keeps trying to connect to the 10.18.x.x gateway. This happens even if I completely shut off the machine at work and restart it at home. This requires that I release/renew the connection.
Not a huge issue, but does anyone know where XP (or perhaps the card itself) saves the Default Gateway settings? Can saving a default gateway be disabled? The card should really broadcast to gain a DHCP address. Alterenately, if it fails to connect to the expected gateway, it should broadcast for an address, but it doesn't.
BTW, setting the gateway/addresses at work and at home to the same range is not possible, since I VPN to work and would experience addressing conflicts with overlapping addresses.
Thanks for any information on how this works and any possible solutions.
At work, the DHCP addresses are 10.18.x.x. At home I use 192.168.1.x addresses. When I come to work, the card finds the correct gateway fine. But when I return home, the card keeps trying to connect to the 10.18.x.x gateway. This happens even if I completely shut off the machine at work and restart it at home. This requires that I release/renew the connection.
Not a huge issue, but does anyone know where XP (or perhaps the card itself) saves the Default Gateway settings? Can saving a default gateway be disabled? The card should really broadcast to gain a DHCP address. Alterenately, if it fails to connect to the expected gateway, it should broadcast for an address, but it doesn't.
BTW, setting the gateway/addresses at work and at home to the same range is not possible, since I VPN to work and would experience addressing conflicts with overlapping addresses.
Thanks for any information on how this works and any possible solutions.
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Jerry Park
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February 12th, 2004 09:00
I would like to know why it isn't working as it should. Alternately, I'd like to know why it works right when I go to work, but doesn't when I come home.
Oh well ...
Jerry Park
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February 12th, 2004 10:00
I moved the script to the startup group. Apparently startup scripts are also run on resume from hibernate, so it works better there.