RE: Local Area Network blocked?

From: adrian916 (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/03/04 

Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 00:46:23 -0700

looking at your original post with ipconfig details, your
host computer is recieving an apipa address (169.254.x.x)
This is an address that the computer assigns itself when
it cannot contact a dhcp server and doesn't have a static
address assigned, so this is where your problem lies.

You don't say how your network is st up.Are you using a
router to assign dhcp? if so, your host computer is not
making contact with it. Check the connections, make sure
you are using a regular inline patch cable, try changing
the cable, try changing the port it connects to on the
router.

If you are simply connecting the two machines directly,
make sure you are using a crossover cable and that ICS is
enabled on the computer that has the internet connection.

Alternatively, you could configure both pc's with static
addresses and subnet masks e.g 192.168.1.2 and
192.168.1.3 both with subnet masks of 255.255.255.0.

The other thing I noticed from ipconfig is that there was
no default gateway assigned - if you are going thru a
router, the default gateway should be your routers ip
address

HTH
>-----Original Message-----
>ok the submasks now match but still nothing goes thru
the router! data is being sent but none being recieved
either end!
>
>"Dan" wrote:
>
>> Looks like the submask address on the host comuter is
wrong. Should be 255.255.255.0 vice 255.255.0.0.
>>
>> "Paul Wilson" wrote:
>>
>> > the dial-up options are blanked out because there
are no connection profiles. the ipconfig comes back with
this:
>> >
>> > CLIENT COMPUTER
>> >
>> > Connection-specfic DNS Suffix: NONE
>> > Automatically configured IP Address: 192.168.0.1
>> > Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
>> > Default Gateway: NONE
>> >
>> > I have manually configured the default gateway of
both computers to 192.168.0.1 like the trouble shooter
sugges *** hat just did help!
>> >
>> >
>> > HOST COMPUTER
>> >
>> > Connection-specfic DNS Suffix: NONE
>> > Automatically configured IP Address: 169.254.131.196
>> > Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0
>> > Default Gateway: NONE
>> >
>> >
>> > "anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com" wrote:
>> >
>> > > open internet explorer. click on tools/internet
>> > > options/connections tab. Is it set to "never dial
a
>> > > connection" (or to "dial default" which no longer
exists!)
>> > >
>> > > If this doesn't solve it, try posting back with
>> > > ipconfig /all details (from a command prompt)
>> > >
>> > > >-----Original Message-----
>> > > >I'm slightly confused by my network. It was
working fine
>> > > for years and then i used my laptop on a dialup
>> > > connection, the laptop is a client on the main
network
>> > > but once i reconnected it to the network it kept
trying
>> > > to dial up a connection to an account under 'MSN'
this
>> > > annoyed me...a lot so i deleted the connection!
>> > > >
>> > > >I tried to connect to the internet after that and
it no
>> > > longer worked, i ran the network setup wizard
several
>> > > times on both the host and client computers using
a
>> > > network setup disk and not. Both computers display
>> > > the 'Local Area Connection' icon but neither
computer is
>> > > recieving any of the data transmitted by the
other. i
>> > > have not idea what i can do to fix the problem.
Can
>> > > anyone help?!
>> > > >.
>> > > >
>> > >
>.
>

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