Re: IP address conflict

Thanks Lem for your reply. The print server is within that range. Should
it be outside that range? I'm using WPA2 encryption.

I'm not doing anything when it happened. I woke up yesterday morning and
opened the laptop and thats when I saw the error. I went in my office where
the router is and saw the same thing on one of the desktops. Neither of
them were in use when the error occured. So what I did was unplug the
adapter from the router for 30 secs to get another IP addy for the desktop.
I was pressed for time so I didn't bother with the laptop but when I got
home last night I had to do the same thing I did in the morning.

I'll have to do your last suggestion when it happens again. I tired to
release and renew both but that didn't even work.

Wy

"Lem" <lemp40@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Wy wrote:
My home network consists of a laptop (wireless), 2 desktops (on board
nics), 1 desktop (PCI wireless adapter) a print server and a wireless
Linksys router (WRT54G). All the computers are running WinXP Pro. I
have DHCP enabled on the router to send out only 10 ip addresses (range
from 192.168.1.15 - 192.168.1.25). The print server is the only one
that's assigned a static ip address. At least once a week I'm getting an
error that says there is an IP address conflict with another system on
the network. Is there a way to prevent this from happening?

I'm probably leaving out some needed info so please feel free to ask for
more details.

Thanks in advance,
Wy



Just to confirm, the static IP assigned to the print server is outside the
range 192.168.1.15 - 192.168.1.25? And you do have WPA or WPA2 encryption
enabled?

Is there any consistency to what you are doing when you get the error
message?

At a time when the error occurs, access the router and check the DHCP
clients table (Status > Local Network > DHCP Clients Table). This will
give you the MAC addresses of the devices to which IP addresses have been
allocated. You can find the MAC address of each computer by running
ipconfig /all on each.

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