iPad fails networking 101; how to earn it a passing grade

The iPad is not playing nice with the DHCP protocol: if the screen is turned off, it doesn't release its IP address when it's supposed to. This leads to address conflicts when the DHCP server gives the address to another system, but there are ways around the problem.

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[bjartur]

Can't someone just write a script to restart DHCP or tell it to ask for a new IP when the iPad comes out of sleep mode or if the Wake/Sleep button is pressed?

Yah and try and get that passed through Apple's approval system, the patch will be out before its approved. No really.

Sorry, it has to be written in C, C++ or Obj-C (rather than sh); and as such would be getting close to the complexity of the patch to this. You might have to use some "proprietary APIs" which would cause the "app" to be rejected when it'll finaly be judged (probably after an official patch has been released).