What causes the wireless card to activate?

On Jun 16, 11:21*am, smlunatick wrote:
On Jun 10, 3:48 pm, DGD wrote:





On Jun 9, 10:12 pm, smlunatick wrote:

On Jun 8, 12:13 pm, Barb Bowman wrote:

Doug,
Looks like you've changed the addressing scheme, since by default
the MN700 uses 192.168.2.xxx addressing. do you want to describe
your network topology? You've got three ranges listed
99...
10...
72...

72 is likely Rogers, but not sure what 99 is.

without seeing the whole entries, it is tough to determine what is
going on.

note that there is a lot of probing, etc. present on the Internet.
the router should be stopping that with SPI. *I'd have to see the
log of traffic to the computers IP to even guess on what is going
on.

UPnP - windows messenger and other programs use this.

On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 04:40:59 -0700 (PDT), DGD
wrote:

Not sure what you mean by UPnP activity. *In any case here is an
extract from my router log. *I have eliminated the IP addresses:

2008/06/07 23:49:08 DHCP Client : Request sent from 72.xxx.xxx.xxx to
99.xxx.xxx.xxx
2008/06/07 23:49:08 DHCP Client : Server response sent from
10.xxx.xxx.xxx to 72.xxx.xxx.xxx
2008/06/07 23:49:08 DHCP Client : Server response sent from
10.xxx.xxx.xxx to 72.xxx.xxx.xxx

This doesn't come close to capturing the amount of communication that
was going on and time line that it occured. *My router doesn't appear
to track this in the device log.

--

Barb Bowman
MS-MVPhttp://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/bowman.mspx...

The printer should be using an IP address porgrammed onto in via the
unit's console (aka static IP.) *Depending on the DHCP lease time may
be set too low.

Also, any "enhanced" management console installed on the PC will
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The lease time is usually two weeks, but I will check later. *The
traffic I am concerned about is coming from the printer and is
independent of any "management console" software installed on the PC.
I disabled all HP software on the laptop and this had no affect on the
amount of transmissions being received on the laptop. *These
transmissions only stopped when the printer's radio was turned off.
I don't see the relationship between an auto or static IP address and
the amount of time the printer is communicating with computers. *Why
would making the printer's address "static" make any difference to why
it constantly transmitting?

Doug

Using a static IP address for the printer will remove the DHCP service
"activity" over the network for the printer. *With DHCP "clients,"
they request an IP address over the network when the lease time-out
has expired. *For servers and printer, these are units that you must
always find across your network and with their DHCP "clients," these
may obtain a different IP address at every lease renewal. *I have
encountered times where these never got a valid IP address so they
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My IP address lease extends for two weeks, so the amount of activity
DHCP is adding to the network is neglible. This problem has only
started with the installation of the wireless printer and it only
affects those Windows computers that have the HP wireless printer
drivers and associated Solutions SW installed. It is also installed
on a Mac, but there is no way to see if it is doing the same thing.