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
..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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