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On Sat, 3 May 2008, Jarod Wilson wrote: > 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... > > I take it you're not that familiar with NetworkManager then... :) > > I suspend and resume all the time with my laptop, moving from a wired > connection at the office to wireless in conference rooms, back to wired, > then home and back onto wireless. Works a treat.
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