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Posted by on November 22, 2006, 5:21 pm
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why it worked. I did a hard reset this AM after it failed to renew the
address, but since then I also had the other problem because I had put
the switch back in.
Ugh. I'd be thrilled if the router would continue to do the DHCP
renewal without incident, but I still don't understand this issue that
happens when I hook up the switch.
I'm sticking with the hub for now. If it behaves for a few days, i'll
try putting the switch back in and see what happens.
On Nov 22, 4:34 pm, josemon...@gmail.com wrote:
> Actually, the problem that the switch seems to cause is not losing the
> WAN address. It creates a situation where the router is unreachable
> from the LAN. Only a power cycle of the router fixes it.
>
> I agree it seems strange that the switch would do this. But this never
> happened before when usin the hub, and I've had it for years. I've
> tried hooking up the switch a few times, and within 24 hours (sometimes
> only 30 min), the problem manifests itself. It's never happened with
> the hub there.
>
> Now, I can't explain that, but that tells me there's some connection.
>
> (The DHCP renewal problem seems to happen no matter what, though.)
>
> Jbob wrote:
> > I'm curious now whether this is a new issue that has just cropped up and
> > really had nothing to do with the new switch. Guess it'll take some more
> > troubleshooting to help you determine just where and what the problem is. I
> > really just don't see a switch or hub causing the router to lose it WAN IP.
> > I can see the switch losing connectivity to the router though but it appears
> > we'll have to wait to see just what is going on
>
> > btw I moved up from a BEFRS41 to a BEFSX41 router. It too has it's share of
> > firmware issues from Linksys.
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