Assigning an IP address using the MAC address

[darronb]

Could someone please help,

How do you assign an IP address to a NIC card, using a command line if the MAC address is all that is known.

Thanks.

 

[jneiberger]

Using the command line on what? What platform are you talking about?

 

[darronb]

Sorry - Windows 2000/XP

 

[cyberspace]

Do you mean via DHCP, As in address reservation? or something else?

'When all else fails.......read the manual'

 

[darronb]

I have a NIC card that connects to a piece of hardware,

All I have is the MAC address for this card. It needs to be programmed with a static IP address.

The NIC card is conneded to my PC with a crossover cable.

Is there a squence of commands I could use through a DOS window to tell the NIC card its IP address

One thing I read was to use the "arp -s" command to save the IP addrsss to the arp table. Then ping the address and after the first "Time Out" it should start to reponce.

It does not responde.

Although if it did reponnd, then use Telnet to program it.

Any ideas !!!!!!!

 

[PaxTech]

This may not solve your issue as I'm pretty sure you need the nic card name to make it work. Here is a link to Netsh instructions. Look at some of the samples it is pretty straight forward and you can run it right from the command line in WinXP.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/netsh_int_ip.mspx

 

[PaxTech]

You may try running the command a number of times just swapping the number variable increasing the value until your sure the settings have been applied. Assuming it's a LAN card it would be "Local Area Connection *" (Don't do this if you have multiple nic's and you don't want the other cards settings to change.)