Re: IP addresses -- MIDRANGE-L

Jeff,

The 169.xxx.xxx.xxx address is an autoconfig address, indicating that the
PC could not reach a DHCP server within the time frame allocated for
reaching a DHCP server.

It has nothing to do with XP (although an XP pc will also get such an
address if it can't find a DHCP server).

Was the DHCP server up at the time?

HTH,

Peter Colpaert
Application Developer

Honda Europe NV
Langerbruggestraat 104
B-9000 GENT
Belgium
Peter.Colpaert@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Tel: +32 9 2501 334
Fax: +32 9 2501 231
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Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>@midrange.com on 27/02/2003 12:56:31
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I had a weird one yesterday.  Our LAN IP addresses are handed out by the
iSeries in the range 192.168.0.XXX with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0.
In the sales room are cat 5 jacks for the outside sales people to plug
into when they bring their laptops in off the road.  Yesterday a rep
said she couldn't get connected.  I went back there and sure enough, it
wouldn't work.

She's on W98 so I did an ipconfig /release_all followed by ipconfig
/renew_all.  The renew, which usually takes 5 seconds, took over 20
seconds.  The IP address she got was 169.xxx.xxx.xxx (don't remember the
last 3 octets) with a subnet mask of 255.0.0.0.  I never did figure out
how this happened.

After I got home, I remember I was in the midst of setting up a new PC
running XP Pro (our first one) when this happened.  Is there something
about XP Pro that it would try to hand out IP addresses and 'beat' the
iSeries to it?  I looked at services on this XP Pro machine and saw
'DHCP Client' but that's also running on my W2K machine.  I'm not sure
where else to look.  Could she have done something to her W98 machine to
cause this?

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Jeff Crosby
Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc.
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531

The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily
the opinion of my company.  Unless I say so.






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