cannot renew IP after standby or hibernation?

Question

Have a latitude D800. updated drivers/bios/win updates/etc. i take it everywhere with me. i jump onto at least 4 different networks on a regular basis, whether it be different offices, home, and other home networks. I like using the standby or hibernation feature, so that I don't have to run through a cold boot. about 85% of the time though, i have problems renewing IPs once I'm back up. ran: - ipconfig/renew - repair - manually disabled/re-enabled nic any suggestions? I didn't mind for awhile, it was more annoying because a reboot seemed to be the only way to fix it. Thanks

Rijko · Answer

Hi,   looks like your OS (W2K ? XP ?) has problems renewing the ip adress.   Since you did a ipconfig /renew dhcp must be used.   So it gets an ip adres from network #1 and then hibernates. When it wakes up it tries to use it again - on a completely different network !   I do not know where the problem lies. But if the ip lease has not expired it may take awhile before your OS asks for an extension of the lease and discovers a new network.   Have you tried ipconfig /release before you hibernate ? On waking up it should have no 'bad memories'..   i am interested in this subject and will follow this thread for awhile. Best regards,

rdecast · Answer

I'm running XP. thanks for the suggestions. while i'll try to see if they work, it was hard for me to believe that that was the only way to fix it. i'll try and see if it helps though. thanks

mollyt · Answer

@rdecast wrote:
Have a latitude D800. updated drivers/bios/win updates/etc. i take it everywhere with me. i jump onto at least 4 different networks on a regular basis, whether it be different offices, home, and other home networks. I like using the standby or hibernation feature, so that I don't have to run through a cold boot. about 85% of the time though, i have problems renewing IPs once I'm back up.

ran:
- ipconfig/renew
- repair
- manually disabled/re-enabled nic

any suggestions? I didn't mind for awhile, it was more annoying because a reboot seemed to be the only way to fix it.

Thanks

Hello,
I am also having the same problem. Did you ever get an answer from Dell? or figure it out on your own. This is very frustrating. I never had this problem with Windows 2000.
MT

mollyt · Answer

Hello again, I may have found a possible fix from Microsoft. Go to http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;890042 This seems to be a problem with SP2. MT

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