This sounds familiar to me. The problem for me was a hanging process called lookupd. There is a utility here http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19412 called unlockupd that may help Let us know if that helps your problem! Michael On Jan 17, 2006, at 12:46 PM, Charles Howse wrote: > Hi, > My isp sometimes drops the ball and goes off-line. > I'll have cable tv, but no cable modem connection to the net. > > The standard way to restore connectivity is to power off the > computer, then > power off the router, then power off the cable modem. > Then power them on in reverse order, i.e. first the cable modem, etc. > > Assuming I don't power off the computer in a situation like this, > is there a > way to get my connectivity back using either the command line or > some gui > utility? > > -- > Thanks, > Charles -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20060117/7a9c59ca/attachment.html