Re: IP Address resets in Standby or Hibernate

From: Steve Winograd [MVP] (winograd_at_pobox.com)
Date: 04/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 13:17:46 -0600

In article <3c2701c42a0e$7cd74d10$a001280a@phx.gbl>, "Brandon"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>When my laptop goes into standby or hibernate mode, my IP
>address resets. I use a router (DHCP server) so my normal
>IP address is 192.168.0.XXX, but coming out of standby it
>changes to 0.0.0.0 and out of hibernate it goes to
>169.x.x.x. I have tried everything and have even
>contacted the laptop manufacturer. I have installed the
>latest drivers. Is there anything else I can do?

Disable the network connection before going into Standby or Hibernate.
Enable the network connection when the computer comes back up.

It's quite common for network card driver programs and/or hardware to
have trouble with Standby or Hibernate. 

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