Bruce, Mac User, and Ken: Thanks for all your help and suggestions!
After posting my last reply, I shut down the MDD and took a nap for a couple of hours (I was up till 4:00 AM). When I started it up, it took a bit longer than usual, and there was a lot of disk activity. So I let it go, and even after it had, to all appearances, completed start-up, there was still a lot of disk activity, really churning. It was clear that the machine was doing something, although I had not opened any applications. So I let it do its thing, which took about 10 minutes. When the machine had stopped al the disk churning, I checked the "network" panel in System Preferences, which reported a valid IP address. I fired up Safari, and, halleluia, it loaded my home page. Browsers are surfing the web just fine now. I had done/changed NOTHING. It seems that OS X fixed the problem all on its own. I just wish it hadn't cost me a few hours of sleep in the meantime. Any ideas on what the OS might have done, or what the problem may have been? Thanks again! Rob Johansen On Saturday, June 16, 2012 11:48:01 AM UTC-4, joh...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: > > > On Jun 16, 2012, at 6:32 AM, frrob wrote: > > > Alex and Ken: > > > > I did check all the physical connections, and they were fine. And again, > as I mentioned in my original post, the machine reports being connected to > ethernet, and gets a valid IP address, and "sees" the other Mac on the > network. > > > > > Check your configuration. You may need to delete your system network > configuration preferences file. > > If you can get an IP address, and see local systems, then the issue is > either your system cannot find the gateway address to access IP addresses > beyond the LAN or the network mask is wrong. Since both of those are sent > by the DHCP server along with your IP address, either your DHCP server is > messed up (the router) or the network configuration is wrong. > > Check the settings against a working mac. > > Also do the other, working systems function after a reboot? or if you > select 'Renew LEase' in the TCP/IP settings in the Network control panel? > DHCP is only important at the time an address is handed out; typical home > routers give out addresse setting s with very long lease times, so the mac > doesn't actually ask for a new address that often. > > -- > Bruce Johnson > > "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD > > -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
