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iPad bug interfering with Princeton's network
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Re: iPad bug interfering with Princeton's network
#12My Macbook Pro crashes my router at home every hour or so when I'm using OS X. Using Ubuntu or Windows causes no problems. It's not related to the number of devices, there are many laptops that come and go.
Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised to find out it's a long embedded bug.
Re: iPad bug interfering with Princeton's network
#13My Macbook Pro crashes my router at home every hour or so when I'm using OS X. Using Ubuntu or Windows causes no problems. It's not related to the number of devices, there are many laptops that come and go. Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised to find out it's a long embedded bug.
Wow, that would drive me nuts.
Re: iPad bug interfering with Princeton's network
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find this funny too. Just as technical, only more jargon. "These devices are continuing to use an IP address they have been leased well beyond the time they should. (In technical terms, the device's DHCP client software stops renewing its lease, but the device keeps using the IP address after the DHCP lease expires. This is not a WiFi issue.)"
Why do you find this funny? It's a concise, relatively jargon free, precise description of the problem. If it's true, it's also a pretty blatant bug - it's one thing not to release your DHCP lease. It's another thing entirely _to continue communicating with an IP address from an expired lease_. The only possible excuse (for the network stack developers) is that your parent operating system suspended, and that you wer…
Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear -- I found the two sentences from the I quoted from amusing because the both descriptions are technical, while "in technical terms" a touch moreso, but the former doesn't strike me as layman friendly.