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Network Connection goesd away periodical
Name: Dave Schwartz Date: July 30, 2001 at 15:31:04 Pacific
Comment:
WIn98se - Peer-to-peer network
Connection between machine A and machines B,C,D,E "goes stale" (for lack of a better phrase) after a period of inactivity (usually about 1 hr). Rebooting machine A solves problem until next period of inactivity.
Name: techtony Date: July 30, 2001 at 21:13:30 Pacific
Reply:
That's actually normal behavior. With a server network, the server keeps the arp cache going as long as you're logged on, but with peer-to-peer, the arp cache entries expire after a few minutes. (Don't exactly remember how many.) Right click net neighborhood and do find computer to create new arp entries. Or you can double click and browse the network (may take several times) or in a dos window do arp -s and the ip address and hardware address of each machine -- these will be static addresses that won't expire.
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