This particular "feature" of Share The Net could be the "solution" to a
lot of those "... but it works FINE for me" issues. You know - you're
having a problem - you've wracked your brain - and everyone you talk to
tells you that they've "-never- seen that!"
Summary:
If you use a STN setting, and then disable it, the information is still
stored in that setting - gets written to the ENVI file - and probably
confuses heck out of the kernel or some driver.
Details:
When I went over to cable service, I set up my STN system using the
settings that the cable provider gave me. There was a problem getting
DHCP leases - that was ultimately traced back to a head-end
configuration problem.
All fixed, right? Heck No!
As part of the "troubleshooting" process - I had re-configured STN
several different ways, using DHCP, using static IP, using RFC 1541, and
so on, and so on, and so on....
I still can't get a lease worth a damn. (It takes several tries)
I even had the cable guys out - they hooked up with a bare-bones laptop
running Windows - and they got a lease every time. (MY windows machine
was behaving as funny as the STN box!)
I tried a different laptop - worked like a champ. 10-base-t, 100-base-t,
you name it, I tried it. I was about ready to go out and spend $$$ on a
linksys router, just to get the DHCP working right!
Solution:
The various settings I had tried with the cable company (to help them
diagnose their problem) still persisted in the STN file - AND were being
written to the disk's ENVI file! (as "export" commands) I examined the
ENVI file with a text-editor and determined that this was happening - I
then examined the saved configuration file: When I "re-enabled" things
like DNS, or DHCP or the static IP - any information I had put there was
still there. I manually removed this persistant information, re-saved,
and recreated a disk.
Now STN gets a lease like a champ.
I'm wondering - how many problems that we've been scratching our heads
over - have been caused by persistant configuration information.
Jim
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