Wireless bridging with windows XP flaky ??

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac' started by lasse@christiansens.net, May 6, 2006.

  1. lasse@christiansens.net

    lasse@christiansens.net Member

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    It does not seem as though bridging from a VM to the en1 on the Mac host in Beta6 (hotfix) version is very stable ..... I have a lot of situations where all of a sudden the VM cannot communicate with any other ip address.

    The i release and renew and might be able to communicate again for a couple of minutes until i lose connectivity again ? Mac OS is stable all the way through.

    Have anyone seen this type of behaviour sine beta6-hotfix came out ?


    Best Regards,

    Lasse,

    PS: Cannot wait for the next beta ! (must be a next beta, still missing stability with shared folders, better network connectivity, and improved speed).
     
  2. mikechadwick

    mikechadwick Member

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    i've had real problems connecting with wi-fi since beta 6. just doesn't seem to recognise the connection.
     
  3. Martin

    Martin Member

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    I have to wait some seconds (15-20) to have internet access after starting WinXP. Just wait. Maybe that's normal after starting WinXP?!
    In addition I have the impression if I enter "ipconfig" as a "DOS" command in a DOS command window it speeds up the process (?).
     
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  4. lasse@christiansens.net

    lasse@christiansens.net Member

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    I seem to get similar results.

    If i do a "ipconfig /release" it releases the ip address (which i do when it stops working). If i then do a "ipconfig /renew" it takes awhile and then complains that it cannot get an ip address.

    Seconds after that windows XP tells me that it has full connectivity. And if i execute an "ipconfig" i can see that it actually got an ip address.

    Weird,
     
  5. lasse@christiansens.net

    lasse@christiansens.net Member

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    Are you running the hotfix version of beta6 ?

    Because i installed the original beta6 and then immediately updated to beta6-hotfix. But these wireless quirks are in the hotfix version.

    Lasse
     
  6. Martin

    Martin Member

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    hotfix applied, indeed.
    BTW did not expect to learn some DOS commands in an Apple forum :p
    ipconfig /release
    and
    ipconfig /renew

    were new to me. fantastic :D
     
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  7. e7sharp9

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    This happens to me also when using DHCP. But if I enter a manual IP address, router and DNS server (same as router), then connection is immediate.

    I've also noticed if I don't enter a manual DNS server even in DHCP, then XP never makes a connection.
     
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  8. VTMac

    VTMac Pro

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    This behavior has existed for me and others since Beta 4. I've seen no real improvement in any release since then. There is a long, long thread on this topic. The odd part is that it only seems to be a problem on "some" wifi networks. For example, I'm typing this message from my home wifi network with no network problems after using for several hours. If I tried the same thing at work, it would randomly come and go. When I go to clients - same thing - sometimes it's flawless, sometimes it seems to "forget" the IP. Very nasty little bug in there somewhere.
     
  9. mbeyer

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    Yeah this happens to me all the time. It does seem to be DHCP-related. When I move from one wireless net to another or from wireless to ethernet, and I am using the dhcp client, i cannot get a new lease.
     
  10. dweebert

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    I wish there was a better solution. The best I can do is to do host-only networking, and to use Apple's Internet Sharing from AirPort->en2, but that stops working when I hook up to ethernet at work.

    It seems that the OS automatically turns off the sharing when the ethernet port becomes dominant, so I have to manually switch the sharing between "AirPort" and "Ethernet". This is a limitation with Apple's sharing implementation, not with Parallels.

    I wish there was a free tool I could use to automatically keep the "Internet Sharing" to the default connection (be it ethernet or wireless). Heck, even a one-button-click switch would suffice.
     

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