charonzen
08-20-2006, 04:40 AM
I had set up an internet connection through my router which was working, but then I decided to put a hub in for a home network. I then encountered this bizarre symptom in which the Local Area Connection in my system tray started throwing up alternating messages, rapid-fire, that my cable was unplugged and that I was connected. That got old fast, so I disabled it, and then I couldn't enable it - "could not renew IP address". So I was on the phone with my ISP for an hour, going through all the cable configurations. The guy thinks it's my modem at this point, but if I do ipconfig /all, I get:
primary dns suffix: (blank)
node type: unknown
...
dhcp enabled: yes
autoconfiguration enabled: yes
autoconfiguration ip address: 169.254.xxx.xxx (well, without the xxx's, but you get it)
subnet mask: 255.255.0.0
default gateway: (blank)
dhcp class ID: test
That last value is because I started fooling around with ipconfig and did:
ipconfig /setclassid "Local Area Connection" TEST
So now I am out of my depth. I do:
ipconfig /showclassid test
and get:
"the operation failed as no adaptor is in the state permissible for this operation", and I do:
ipconfig /showclassid "Local Area Connection"
and get:
"There are no classes defined for Local Area Connection". So... if neither of those worked, I'm guessing the dhcp is somehow involved? At this point, I am obviously pissing in the wind, since I don't even know which parameters to use for which commands, but I digress - I was explaining how I got the "test", but before I actually set that, I did ipconfig /release and got:
Autoconfiguration IP address: 169.254.xxx.xxx
...
which confused me, because I thought I at least understood this enought to think that releasing it should set it to 0.0.0.0. Which is where I started looking up ipconfig commands and trying unsuccessfully to figure this out. So, having given all of that, am I correct in thinking that the dhcp is not letting go of addresses somehow? All I know is that I can't even access my router through 192.168.1.1. I'm probably running around in circles here, missing something obvious, so if you've read this far, any input is much appreciated.
charonzen
primary dns suffix: (blank)
node type: unknown
...
dhcp enabled: yes
autoconfiguration enabled: yes
autoconfiguration ip address: 169.254.xxx.xxx (well, without the xxx's, but you get it)
subnet mask: 255.255.0.0
default gateway: (blank)
dhcp class ID: test
That last value is because I started fooling around with ipconfig and did:
ipconfig /setclassid "Local Area Connection" TEST
So now I am out of my depth. I do:
ipconfig /showclassid test
and get:
"the operation failed as no adaptor is in the state permissible for this operation", and I do:
ipconfig /showclassid "Local Area Connection"
and get:
"There are no classes defined for Local Area Connection". So... if neither of those worked, I'm guessing the dhcp is somehow involved? At this point, I am obviously pissing in the wind, since I don't even know which parameters to use for which commands, but I digress - I was explaining how I got the "test", but before I actually set that, I did ipconfig /release and got:
Autoconfiguration IP address: 169.254.xxx.xxx
...
which confused me, because I thought I at least understood this enought to think that releasing it should set it to 0.0.0.0. Which is where I started looking up ipconfig commands and trying unsuccessfully to figure this out. So, having given all of that, am I correct in thinking that the dhcp is not letting go of addresses somehow? All I know is that I can't even access my router through 192.168.1.1. I'm probably running around in circles here, missing something obvious, so if you've read this far, any input is much appreciated.
charonzen