[Info-vax] FreeAXP loses network connectivity when laptop is woken up from "sleep"

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I have FreeAXP installed on a laptop. For networking I'm using a virtual NIC (OpenVPN) which is bridged with the laptop's real wired network interface.

When I boot up the laptop, then start FreeAXP, then boot VMS and start TCP/IP services, I can ping my ADSL router and servers on the Internet (e.g. 8.8.8.8).

If, however, I put the laptop to "sleep" (without shutting down VMS), after waking it up again VMS is still running (I can get the console back by telnetting to localhost:9000 using Putty) but it no longer has network connectivity. Sleep/wake cycling has no effect on the laptop's networking - just on VMS networking.

So far, the only way I found to get the network back (in VMS) by shutting down VMS and restarting FreeAXP.

Back in 2010, Hein reported the same problem (loss of network upon sleep/wake) but he could get it back by running "NET STOP MSICPAP" followed by "NET START MSIPCAP" in a DOS window. This doesn't work in my case. It says the service cannot be stopped. (Yes, I'm running the DOS window with Administrator privileges.) I'm assuming that's because FreeAXP is still running. 

Once I completely stop FreeAXP and start it back up again, networking is back. But the idea is to get the networking back without having to restart VMS.

Any ideas greatly appreciated.

Nathan