Every time my DHCP lease expires from Comcast I lose all connectivity
(which makes sense), but the Linksys router does not automatically
renew it! I have to go in and manually click DHCP Renew in the
Linksys Admin to get the new IP. It shows 00:00:00 time available for
the lease so the router should KNOW that it expired...

What's up with that?

-Brent

Just another note, I am using firmware 1.45.11, Jun 03 2004


"Brent Wege" <brentwege@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Welcome to the wonderful world of Linksys firmware. See below:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/rema...4935~mode=flat

"Jbob" <nobody@SpamCox.net> wrote in message
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Wow... I finally upgrade the firmware and its full of bugs... great.

Forums and Newsgroups are wonderful places to find out about this stuff.
Perhaps it might be educational for you to spend more time cruising those
places. I spend very much of my time reading and learning about stuff like
this. It can be very educational at times and occasinally I get to help
someone as well.

If you know Java, I've got a workaround at
http://gonsalves.dyndns.org:7702/Public/Befsr41/.

Russell

"Brent Wege" <brentwege@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Just to mention that the fix I posted below appears to have made my
connection rock solid. I've set up task scheduler under XP to run the task
daily at 8 hour intervals. My ISP gives me a 24 hour lease. The first time
it runs after the renewal (8 hours) nothing happens (as expected). The
second time it runs (16 hours after renewal) it renews the lease since it's
not below the 12-hour mark. This has been in place since early on Jun 26 and
the lease has been renewed like clockwork. Sweet!
I'm sure other workarounds would work as well as well as clicking the renew
button manually, which I did for a few days (to make sure that was the only
problem I had) before I coded the workaround. The reason I didn't move back
to 1.45.7 was that 1.45.11 claims to have fixed a boatload of problems and
since the lease renewal was the only issue that I experienced the simple
workaround made regressing to 1.45.7 counter-productive to me.

Russell

"RG" <gonsalves1@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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I also had the DHCP renew issue after I upgraded my BEFSR41 v2 router
to 1.45.11. I'm glad the Linksys has finally fixed this problem with
1.46. I was getting tired of renewing my IP address manually.

http://www.linksys.com/download/vert...r-v146_ver.txt

http://www.linksys.com/download/firmware.asp?fwid=3


"RG" <gonsalves1@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<SYnGc.9570$yy1.8580@newsread2.news.atl.earth link.net>...

I had a problem like this but updating the firmware worked. I belive
they just came out with one recently but it may be the one you say
you had. at any rate, make sure you unplug the router and modem
(while the computer is off is optimal but you can repair your IP from
the control panel if needed) Then plug in the modem first then the
router... after updating the firmware (when I had the same problem
you did) then unplugging the modem, then the router, then plug back
in the modem and wait til all the connection lights are activated.
(Send, receive, connected or however many you normally get, usually
3-4 lights) then plug in the router and wait til it's fully loaded,
then reboot or turn on the machine and it should work. Its not
exactly the same here, but I had the same problem with a
networkeverywhere router which is made by linksys and that is how I
solved it.

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