Re: vacation troubles

Rick Moynihan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.sun.jini
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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/

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