[lug] DHCP has stopped DHCPing

Ben Whaley bwhaley at gmail.com
Sun Feb 17 16:22:24 MST 2008


I run a  Buffalo WHR-G54S with DD-WRT at home and I haven't rebooted
it in months (or years?). I used to run a Linksys WAP and I had no end
of problems with the native firmware.

Find a device that will run Tomato or DD-WRT and you'll never look back.

- Ben

On Feb 17, 2008 9:48 AM, Kenneth D Weinert <kenw at quarter-flash.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 08:30 -0700, Lori Reed wrote:
> > Kenneth D. Weinert wrote:
> >
> > > Well, at least for now a powercycle worked.
> >
> > When ever the Internet stops working, I have found that power cycling my
> > cable router usually fixes it.
>
> See, that's the odd thing - the one box that has a fixed (internal) IP
> was working fine, so the internet hadn't gone away.
>
> The router was the one having issues and I was accustomed to
> powercycling the AP, but this is the first time I had had an issue with
> DHCP and I just didn't make the connection that it could be partially
> working - the routing side was working.
>
> I'm not a hardware guy and sometimes the obvious isn't quite so.
>
>
> > You're all very welcome. ;)
> >
> > Lori
> >
> >
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