IP Aoutoconfigure address

16 Sep 2006 12:51 AM

Threeheadedtoad

I have 6 computers on a huge academic network which will not get a correct IP
Address from the DHCP server. If I release and renew the ip address from the
command prompt, it gets a correct IP, but after a restart, it goes back to
its "internal" auto-configured IP address. Does Win XP Pro store this info
anywhere other than ControlSet registry keys? ARe there any ini files?

Running Netware 4.91 client
Windows XP Pro SP2

It only happens on half a dozen or so computers out of 500+

Thanx!!

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16 Sep 2006 9:19 AM

Ian

I don't think so, but you can set an alternate fixed address on the TCP/IP
panel, for use if DHCP fails. Perhaps if you reserved a small scope for these
few machines and did so, that would solve the problem.

16 Sep 2006 9:52 AM

Richard G. Harper

If a release/renew fixes the problem, it's probably not a Windows
configuration problem. I'd expect that kind of problem to reappear even
after a release/renew. See what these computers have in common and you'll
probably find the cause of the problem - for example, if they're all on the
same physical segment of the network you may have a switch or router
configuration problem; if they all have multiple network cards then you may
need to disable all but one card in each computer, and so on.

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"Threeheadedtoad" <Threeheadedt***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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>I have 6 computers on a huge academic network which will not get a correct
>IP
> Address from the DHCP server. If I release and renew the ip address from
> the
> command prompt, it gets a correct IP, but after a restart, it goes back to
> its "internal" auto-configured IP address. Does Win XP Pro store this info
> anywhere other than ControlSet registry keys? ARe there any ini files?
>
> Running Netware 4.91 client
> Windows XP Pro SP2
>
> It only happens on half a dozen or so computers out of 500+
>
> Thanx!!
> --
> IT Sepcialist

17 Sep 2006 2:52 AM

XP Novice

Manual method to reset TCP/IP
The NetShell utility (netsh) is a command-line scripting interface for
configuring and monitoring Windows XP networking. This tool provides an
interactive network shell interface to the user.

In Windows XP, a reset command is available in the IP context of the
NetShell utility. When you run the reset command, it rewrites pertinent
registry keys that are used by the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) stack to reach
the same result as the removal and the reinstallation of the protocol.