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On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 15:34 -0400, Scott R. Ehrlich wrote: > One other reason - as I encourage people to shut down instead of > suspend/sleep, is that if they are in a networked environment, the machine > holds network state from location x to location y. I then get called in > to hear their laptop cannot "talk" on the network, only to find its > network info was from where they were last at (home vs office, hotel vs > home, etc). > > I then advise them they should shutdown and reboot, which will purge their > network info and give the system a fresh start the next time it is powered > on... for most TCP/IP situations... except, at times, for those static > addresses...
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