HOW TO RESET MAC NETWORK SETTINGS MAC
If you've tweaked various settings, you'll have to find and untweak those settings, or (less desirably) delete the whole interface and re-add it. Uncheck all of those, unless you're on a network that requires proxies.Īs for your question, please post a link to the proxy settings article you were reading, and please indicate what attributes of your network that you are resetting that "works on and off". On more recent releases than your 10.5.8, managing the proxies for the various protocols is a set of checkboxes, and unchecking those will clear all proxies. They're an intermediate hop and effectively a special-purpose IP router that's intentionally placed into the network path to the intended destination for your network connections of the particular protocol(s) involved. While they do have IP addresses, network proxies aren't particularly related to IP addressing itself. Proxies tend to be something used in school or business networks, and when there are servers that secure or that cache network traffic for the organization.
It's rare to change proxy settings for a small or home network.