I need help to explain to a layman about a “Perceived” network issue

[johnkgibson]

This is what I believe is going on:

1) He will be in his office, on a wired ethernet connection with his laptop

2) He will have servers mounted

3) He will close his system, unplug the wire and go to the conference room

4) He will open his laptop in the conference room and immediately try to access the servers that are mounted on the drive

5) System will give him (after timing out) volume not found.

6) Finally he will double click on an alias and it will give him the “Logon” dialog, and he logs back in.

I have been trying to tell him that while both network connections share the same end point (the networked computer) the issue is that when you pull the wire out you have truly
disconnected yourself from the network, and the system is trying to use the disconnected port to connect. Once it the system times outs, then it stops trying. This is why he is getting
a delay between when the wired connection is pulled and the wireless takes over. The system simply has to “catch up” at that point.

Has apple worked out an underlying system that checks to see if a connected server is available on another network interface and if so reconnects? I don’t think so but then again, I could be wrong.

Thanks for the help.

John

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