You learn something new everyday ...
Oct. 31st, 2002 06:37 am... even at REALLY odd hours.
Friend of mine wrote to me about a reoccuring problem he's been having .. so as any good and way too nice friend I quickly researched the problem and returned with the result, and ... well ... its just wrong.
Apperantly Mac has an open problem with DHCP. If you are on a later macOS and your renewel time for DHCP is greater then an hour, the OS never sends the DHCP RENEW packet.

Holy RFC's Batman!
Friend of mine wrote to me about a reoccuring problem he's been having .. so as any good and way too nice friend I quickly researched the problem and returned with the result, and ... well ... its just wrong.
Apperantly Mac has an open problem with DHCP. If you are on a later macOS and your renewel time for DHCP is greater then an hour, the OS never sends the DHCP RENEW packet.
Holy RFC's Batman!