Belkin wireless router stops routing

I have a Belkin FSD-6231-4 wireless router. Into this router are
plugged two machines: a 450 MHz Celeron 300A running Debian Linux at
450 megahertz and a 1.9 GHz Athlon 2600+ running Windows XP. There is
one other machine on the home network via wireless: a Macintosh
Wallstreet Powerbook 266, running OS X 10.2.

Once a day, about as regular as clockwork, the Belkin router stops
routing. It usually happens in the wee hours of the morning (though
I've also had it happen when I'm away at work, which is annoying since
I ssh into the home machine to check my email): I get up and come in
to the computer to find all the terminal applications I had open from
my Windows box to my Linux box are frozen, as are all outbound
connections. The only way to get it started again is to power-cycle
the Belkin router.

The odd thing is, it never seemed to do this when just the Linux box,
or even just the Linux box and the Mac, were on the network. But put
more than one Mac on board, or the Mac and the Windows box, and the
daily disconnections commence. I wonder if it has something to do
with DHCP? Both the Linux and Windows boxes have static IPs (on the
network, that is) and the Mac is supposed to, but sometimes I set it
on the wrong profile and it hooks on via DHCP. I had read there was
some sort of DHCP issue with the router with Windows (though I never
could find exactly what it was), and that I was supposed to set DHCP
to 24-hour lease to resolve it. I actually have the lease time set to
forever at the moment, but I tried it on 24 for a while and it did not
seem to abate the problem.

Can anyone offer advice?
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Sounds like a DHCP problem. Possible that the router is not updating
its ip address?

Dave


Robotech_Master <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed) rg>...
> I have a Belkin FSD-6231-4 wireless router. Into this router are
> plugged two machines: a 450 MHz Celeron 300A running Debian Linux at
> 450 megahertz and a 1.9 GHz Athlon 2600+ running Windows XP. There is
> one other machine on the home network via wireless: a Macintosh
> Wallstreet Powerbook 266, running OS X 10.2.
>
> Once a day, about as regular as clockwork, the Belkin router stops
> routing. It usually happens in the wee hours of the morning (though
> I've also had it happen when I'm away at work, which is annoying since
> I ssh into the home machine to check my email): I get up and come in
> to the computer to find all the terminal applications I had open from
> my Windows box to my Linux box are frozen, as are all outbound
> connections. The only way to get it started again is to power-cycle
> the Belkin router.
>
> The odd thing is, it never seemed to do this when just the Linux box,
> or even just the Linux box and the Mac, were on the network. But put
> more than one Mac on board, or the Mac and the Windows box, and the
> daily disconnections commence. I wonder if it has something to do
> with DHCP? Both the Linux and Windows boxes have static IPs (on the
> network, that is) and the Mac is supposed to, but sometimes I set it
> on the wrong profile and it hooks on via DHCP. I had read there was
> some sort of DHCP issue with the router with Windows (though I never
> could find exactly what it was), and that I was supposed to set DHCP
> to 24-hour lease to resolve it. I actually have the lease time set to
> forever at the moment, but I tried it on 24 for a while and it did not
> seem to abate the problem.
>
> Can anyone offer advice?