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Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:06 am Post subject:
renewing the ip address |
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Folks,
I have had a home network for years and am recently encountering a
problem. I am running two Dells, one with XP home and one with XP Pro.
I connect to Comcast via a Lynksys router. Recently, one PC has begun
intermittently losing the connection (apparent when I try to open a
link in a new browser window and get the page not found screen) and the
second, which is running XP Pro loses the IP address every night and
must be rebooted to renew the address. Any idea what the deal is? Why
does one lose the IP address while the other doesn't? This is getting
incredibly annoying.
thanks much,
Zenon |
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Warren
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Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:07 am Post subject:
Re: renewing the ip address |
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zenonk@comcast.net wrote:
| Quote: | Folks,
I have had a home network for years and am recently encountering a
problem. I am running two Dells, one with XP home and one with XP
Pro.
I connect to Comcast via a Lynksys router. Recently, one PC has begun
intermittently losing the connection (apparent when I try to open a
link in a new browser window and get the page not found screen) and
the
second, which is running XP Pro loses the IP address every night and
must be rebooted to renew the address. Any idea what the deal is?
Why
does one lose the IP address while the other doesn't? This is getting
incredibly annoying.
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Well, you've got two separate problems that probably aren't related to
each other. But the first thing I would do is power-cycle the router.
Also, either from the system tray icon, or from the system properties,
"Repair" the connection for the XP Home machine.
As for the XP Pro machine, losing the IP address each night sounds like
you may be running a firewall with settings too strict. So strict that
DHCP isn't functioning right. Double-check your firewall settings. And
make sure you aren't running both a third-party firewall, and the SP2
firewall at the same time.
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Flack
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Thu Dec 30, 2004 7:02 pm Post subject:
Re: renewing the ip address |
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I got the same issue happening with windows XP machine. My other computers
don't have this issue. I resolve by powercycling Linksys router and doing a
repair on the network connection for the XP machine. This is a recent
occurance. Could one of the XP updates have caused this? (this is the only
recent chnage to this machine.)
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| Quote: | Folks,
I have had a home network for years and am recently encountering a
problem. I am running two Dells, one with XP home and one with XP Pro.
I connect to Comcast via a Lynksys router. Recently, one PC has begun
intermittently losing the connection (apparent when I try to open a
link in a new browser window and get the page not found screen) and the
second, which is running XP Pro loses the IP address every night and
must be rebooted to renew the address. Any idea what the deal is? Why
does one lose the IP address while the other doesn't? This is getting
incredibly annoying.
thanks much,
Zenon
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Guest
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Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:00 am Post subject:
Re: renewing the ip address |
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Thanks for the help, suggestions, I appreciate it. I was unable to fix
the XP Pro machine, evern after disabling the firewall completely.
even after power cycling the router and modem, and rebooting the
computer, I still was unable to repair the connection. I ended up
backing up the important data on the hard drive and reinstalling
windows... now it works like a champ. |
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