On Tuesday, 11 January 2022 9:18:47 IST Erez D wrote: > The windows 169.25. ip is from APIPA and not from any DHCP server (ipconfig > does not specify a dhcp server).
Thank you for your enhancement, and more specific explanation. I was wrong ,it's APIPA which implement it and not the bonjour service. > to be on the safe side I verified udp port 67 is unused on my mac (via > netstat, fuser and socat) > > what boggles me is why can't the window machine access the router and get > an ip when the mac is sleeping > He may be getting the ip and routing *from* the mac itself (mac running dhcp server). > as the AP switch is layer 2, i would susspect the switch disables the > windows machin for some reason, > e.g. it sees the same mac address from another port or detects abuse of > somewhat from the windows eth port > however i do not understand how is this related to the mac sleeping > > I thought the AP switch maybe defective but puting another GB switch > instead causes the same results ... > > why do you thing HOMEGROUP is related ? it is a higher layer protocol when > the problems seems to me on layer 2 > homegroup is effectively a vpn , it's easy to make mistake there (speaking from experience) and lock yourself from the local network at home. > Thanks, > Erez > > > _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
