Re: Networking control panel refresh
Re: Networking control panel refresh
- Subject: Re: Networking control panel refresh
- From: Matthew Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 12:51:38 +1000
on 14/10/2002 10:31, email@hidden at email@hidden wrote:
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The Networking Control panel for Mac OS is a bit perplexing to me when it
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comes to it's refreshing of it's settings on-screen. I'm wondering if there's
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something I can do in Applescript to help it along.
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For instance, if I have a Mac on a corporate ethernet network, retrieving it's
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DHCP and router info from the corporate DHCP server, and then I unplug that
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Ethernet cable and plug in a DSL router - - at what point should I see the new
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DHCP setting visible in the Network control panel? Is there a way to get
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Applescript to do an immediate "refresh" of the networking control panel? I
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find that if I go into the control panel and manually flip back and forth
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between Manual IP and DHCP, that seems to help the Mac "wake up" and obtain
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it's new DHCP and router IP settings.
If you create two TCP/IP configurations, one for each connection type, and
use Location Manager to swap between them, it may refresh more quickly.
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Matthew Smith
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