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"Scott R. Ehrlich" <[hidden email]> writes: > 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. > > I'm certainly familiar with Network Manager ;-) But, sometimes things > just don't go as you expect ;-) Also, I deal with all variants of > Linux, including machines whose setups mysteriously get mangled.
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