Re: setting IP to 224.0.0.1

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I understand. If it were me, I'd find out what the actual field problem is.
If it's DHCP, nothing you do to CE is going to fix it. CE assumes that you
know what you're doing with your DHCP server, so it's not going to give any
opportunity to choose a different address. If the user is entering it, he's
entering something that's clearly wrong, so you've got a training issue. At
that point, you can evaluate the benefits of cloning and modifying NETUI to
check the addresses entered by the user before returning them. Figure that
it will take about two weeks to get the component cloned, modified,
compiling as part of your platform, and properly replacing the Microsoft
version. You'd have to modify network.c, the function AdapterIPProperties()
(at least in CE 4.2, which is what's in front of me).

Paul T.

"anonymous" <anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm not sure what users are doing, but in CE 4.x, 127.0.0.1 wasn't checked
and we've had boxes returned since the network was unavailable after it
was
set. I don't know if they have a bad DHCP setup or are trying to setup
private networks and are just picking a number.

Doesn't really matter. CE is not robust to a simple typo. Trying to figure
out why netui has functions that appear to be correct that aren't getting
called.

"Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" wrote:

Sounds like a bug in the UI. Why would you want to do that, though?
Those
address ranges are for various things (multicast groups, etc.) There's
no
reason to intentionally set your IP in one of those ranges that I can
think
of...

Paul T.

"anonymous" <anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In NetUI and ConnMC, there is a function CheckAddress which checks that
an
IP
address a.b.c.d meets:
a != 0, 127, 224-255
d != 255

These functions don't appear to be called by anything I can find. If I
set
the IP to 224.0.0.1 or a=224-255, the adapter disappears from the
network
control panel, and I have to erase the registry to get it back.

Has anyone found this bug and worked out a fix to prevent a user from
getting into this state of needing to reset the registry ?





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