[BC] Windows 7 networking

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

There must be some command available of the router/DHCP Server that will flush the routing cache. With Windows, before you move it to another wire or hardware device, you must execute from the 'Cmd' prompt:

ipconfig /release

...Then unplug the network wire(s) before you execute shutdown, because there are many programs that 'call home' during shutdown and that will force the machine to reconnect to the network.

Once you have move the machine to a new wire, it should come up cleanly because the 'release' should have cleared anything anybody 'knows' about your computer from the machines that care..

Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
Book: http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Landry" <011010001 at interpring.com>

Is it just me, or is Windows 7 networking this ugly?

Yesterday I had to move a computer from office B to office A, and install 
a second NIC on another machine to put it on the radio station's private 
LAN in addition to its parent organization's network. Both projects turned 
out to be hair-tearingly complicated, with colleagues insisting that the 
parent organization's IT people were blocking our access to the Internet.