Dale,

If it were a dial-up connection, then that would make perfect sense. However, my IP number has not
changed in three weeks. (Sorry - I neglected to mention that). This leads me to suspect the NIC
somehow needs refreshing - like a phone that's been left off the hook after the other party has
disconnected - (except with a phone line, you _might_ get a dial tone back after a while). I
appreciate your input - any other thoughts?

Alan Thompson

You wrote:

> In many ways I would think this is the way it should be. If you were
> assigned an IP via DHCP, then your PC is put to sleep and not on the network
> it will not respond to the lease renewal requests and your IP number will be
> returned to the scope of the DHCP server. If you wake up your machine,
> chances are your IP will be in use by another user, so therefore  you reboot
> to get a new IP number.
>
> Dale Laluk

---Original message---

> ..snip ..
> > Running Win ME, IE 5.5, on a HP 8860 with a Realtek RTL8139(A)-based NIC.
> >
> > The problem:
> > The issue is with power management and my cable connection.
> > Regardless of how I shutdown, (standby,
> > hibernate) whenever I start up again, my DNS/DHCP server numbers
> > are gone in winipcfg. "Renew all"
> > does nothing (pinging my isp fails). I have to restart to get
> > everything back - after which, all is
> > fine, but it kind of defeats the purpose of standby and hibernate.

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