Re: vacation troubles
Rick Moynihan <[email protected]>
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Fabrizio Giudici wrote: > On Jul 9, 2007, at 23:42 , Bob Craig wrote: > >> I'm guessing you are running on Windows? >> >> What I do in this situation is install the Microsoft Loopback Adapter. >> That will then assign a 127.0.0.1 IP address and make your machine >> keeps >> its IP stack loaded. >> > > When I worked with Windows (now I'm on Mac OS X :-) I remember that > there was an easy setting on the registry to disable the "auto- > sensing" (?) which is the stuff that drops any IP address from your > NICs when they are not connected. > Unfortunately I can't find the doc that I saved with this > information, but maybe you can try googling it. In case you can't find it, the specific feature you need to disable is media sensing. In my experience this has been quite a common problem for Windows users. There is a MS support article on disabling this, here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/239924 -- Rick Moynihan Software Engineer Calico Jack LTD http://www.calicojack.co.uk/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Getting Started: http://www.jini.org/wiki/Category:Getting_Started Community Web Site: http://jini.org jini-users Archive: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/jini-users.html Unsubscribing: email "signoff JINI-USERS" to [email protected]