Re: IP address and LAN problems
- From: Tallan <Tallan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:57:01 -0800
Lem
Thanks for taking the trouble to respond. Forget the IP address issue - now
realise that that is not the problem as I am working on the computer which is
OK and the IP address assigned by the ISP is not of the 192.168.0.xxx format,
and both internet and LAN connections are working fine. This is the problem
- I can't see any difference in the setup of the computer which does work and
the one that doesn't.
Let me give you a more detailed description of the setup. I have a Dell
Dimension with a Sagem modem connected directly to the phoneline. I also
have another computer (an AppleMac at present, but this can vary) connected
via a patch cable to the Dell. My terminology may be wrong, but I am calling
the Dell the host computer, and the AppleMac the client. When I connect to
Tiscali Broadband from the Dell, I always get the Error 720 message. I run
the netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt command and restart the Dell. I am
then able to connect to Tiscali, but the LAN connection is broken. If I
leave the LAN broken and restart the Dell, I am still able to connect to
broadband. However, if I remake the LAN connection using the wizard (or
typing in the 192.168.0.1 IP address in TCP/IP properties and 255.255.255.0
sub-mask) I can only retain the broadband connection so long as I don't
restart the Dell. As soon as I restart, the broadband connection fails and I
have to start the process all over again. As you can imagine, this is quite
frustrating, and Tiscali appear to have no answer.
My alternative at present is to use a Dell Inspiron 1300 in place of the
Dell Dimension - this works perfectly, even though the IP address and TCP/IP
properties are identical to the Dell Dimension, which doesn't work properly.
As I have said, I hav tried resetting Winsock2 on the Dimension, but this
makes no difference and the Winsock properties (as shown on the system file)
seem to be OK. Completely at a lost for what to do. Did think of using
system restore to get back to a point before this problem arose, but none of
the restore points work!
"Lem" wrote:
Tallan wrote:.
I have an ISP and hardwired LAN to a singlt computer, This has worked for
years until the broadband network failed for a week over Xmas. When the ISP
got it back on-line, I could not get a connection. Eventually they advised
using the netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt command. Whilst this fixes the
problem with the network access, it destroys the LAN connection. When I
re-build the LAN connection, I lose the network connection (error 720) if I
restart the host computer. The command gets it back again, but I lose the
LAN and therefore have to start again. I have tried reseting Winsock, but
this makes no difference. I have tried using another host computer, and that
one works OK, even though the network properties are the same on both. One
thing I have noticed is that the IP address assigned by the ISP does not have
the 192.168.0.xxx format on the computer which does not network properly, but
does on the one with no problem. Can someone please suggest a fix. Thanks
It's difficult to figure out from your post how you have configured your
systems. It sounds as if you are using Windows Internet Connection
Sharing. Is this correct? Also, how exactly is the "host" computer
connected to the Internet? Please supply make and model of the device
that's between the computer and the wall and how it's connected to the
"host" computer.
How do you "rebuild the LAN connection"?
Please explain more clearly what you mean by the following:
I have tried using another host computer, and that
one works OK, even though the network properties are the same on both. One
thing I have noticed is that the IP address assigned by the ISP does not have
the 192.168.0.xxx format on the computer which does not network properly, but
does on the one with no problem.
What network properties are the same? What IP address are you referring
to, and what is its value?
--
Lem -- MS-MVP
To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm
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