I have a DHCP server on my network and my Windows 2000 station will not find it durring boot. Other stations on the network find it and get their IP Addresses but I must provide a static IP for the Win2K to connect to the network. When booting with DHCP it gets assigned a 196.x.x.x address and my network is 10.127.20.x.
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DHCP Not Working
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It automatically is assigning 169.254.58.58 with a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0
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Tryed uninstalling, restart, reinstalling, restart TCP/IP and the results were the same. I then uninstalled all networking components and reinstalled them with the same effect. When trying to do DHCP, I check the ipconfig /all and it shows the same IP address (169.254.58.58) but it also show a line "auto configuration enabled". Perhaps that is a clue. I can put a static IP in and it connects fine.
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The DHCP for the entire network is a SMC Barricade router that is serving all the DHCP to the rest of the network. It is at 10.127.20.1, though the server is a static IP address but the rest are dynamic.
I would recommend a little troubleshooting. Try connecting the machine your having a problem with to one of the ports a successfull machine is using. REboot and see what happens. Or you could always try going through a command prompt typing: ipconfig /renew and see if it renews with the correct ip. Make sure to have dhcp turned on in your win2k.
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My network configuration is:
1) NT4 Server (SP6a)
1) Windows 2000 Professional (SP2)
1) Windows 98 SE
1) Windows 95
1) SMC Barricade Router (Latest Firmware as of 2/14/02)
1) Red Hat Linux (Not Currently Running)
1) OS/2 Warp (Not Currently Running)
1) NT4 Server (SP6a)
1) Windows 2000 Professional (SP2)
1) Windows 98 SE
1) Windows 95
1) SMC Barricade Router (Latest Firmware as of 2/14/02)
1) Red Hat Linux (Not Currently Running)
1) OS/2 Warp (Not Currently Running)
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Swapped ports with working system and no change. I also made registry change as per MS to create IPAutoconfigurationEnabled value as 0 to supposedly disable the auto configuration which also didn't work.
I'd bet it has something to do with the NIC. I had the same problem with a new machine here not pulling IP's. The address your getting is an automatic assigned if it can't find a dhcp server. With mine I switched the PCI slot and that fixed it. Matt Wray
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I can manually assign an IP address and it works fine. I will try changing the slot as I have seen that work in other systems before for whatever reason.
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