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Cannot contact ICS for IP

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by caper

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I have three computers all running win2k...one acts as the Internet Connection Sharing device and is multi-homed. All three worked well until I moved one to another room. The only change was a longer cable. This computer can no longer get an IP fromthe ICS computer. I have un-installed TCP/IP and re-installed, physically removed the card and re-installed - all to no avail. The computer is set to "Obtain and IP address Automatically". But each time it boots IPCONFIG /All shows an ip outside of the private 192.168.x.x range issued by ICS. It instead is autoconfigured to another range of IP's and therefore will not communicate. Any help would be appreciated.

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by ann777

Check that cable. See if you have link lights at both the computer end (at the nic) and on the hub. If both link lights are active, then check the protocols. If the nic light does not light up, then check inside and re-seat that adapter. Make sure device manager has a unique IRQ for that adapter (ie. that the IRQ is not being shared with other resource intensive devices).

If your computer is picking up a 169.254.x.x ip address, it is because windows cannot find a dhcp server. Is your 192.168.x.x range being assigned by a win2000 server computer? See if you can statically assign an ip address in your 192.168.x.x. network and ping that server.

by caper

Not a win2k server. The cable and NIC are ok. When I manually assign an IP of 192.168.x.x I am able to ping workstations anywhere in the world. But I am not able to run apps such as Netscape or irc ("Netscape is not able to open a socket connection"). I use 192.168.0.1 as the gateway and preferred DNS server.

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