re: ***TRY THIS*** CANNOT RENEW 169.254.x.x Pls HelP Wednesday, October 16, 2002 at 9:36 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Dennis F. (1 messages posted) Method1 - On the Windows 98 CD-ROM in the MTSutil folder (also reference Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - Q188480): IPAC_OFF.INF - DISABLE TCP/IP IP AUTOCONFIGURATION IPAC_ON.INF - ENABLE TCP/IP IP AUTOCONFIGURATION Method 2 - Registry Hack: The Windows 98 TCP/IP stack supports a new mechanism for automatic address assignment of IP addresses for simple LAN-based network configurations. IP Autoconfiguration Addressing is an extension of dynamic IP address assignment for LAN adapters. It enables configuration of IP addresses without using static IP address assignment or installing a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP) server. If a network LAN adapter is configured for TCP/IP, and if "Obtain an IP address automatically" is selected on the IP Address tab in the TCP/IP Properties dialog box, Windows 98 TCP/IP attempts to find and use a DHCP service on the attached network to obtain a dynamically assigned IP address. If it does not find a DHCP service, Windows 98 uses IP Autoconfiguration Addressing by assigning the adapter an Class B IP address out of the network number 169.254.x.x IP address space. In this way, two PCs can be plugged into a LAN hub and can start without any IP address configuration, and can use TCP/IP networking for internetworking. Each computer that uses IP Autoconfiguration Addressing gets an IP address and tests to determine that the IP address is unique and not already in use on the LAN. IP Autoconfiguration Addressing is enabled by default. IP Autoconfiguration Addressing can be controlled by setting the value of IPAutoconfigurationEnabled (type DWORD) in the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VXD\DHCP If the value of IPAutoconfigurationEnabled is nonzero or if the registry key is absent, IP Autoconfiguration Addressing is enabled. An IPAutoconfigurationEnabled value of 0 disables the IP Autoconfiguration Addressing feature. If Windows 98 initially does not detect a DHCP service and configures an IP Autoconfiguration IP address, and then it subsequently discovers a DHCP service on the network, Windows 98 uses the DHCP service and switches from 169.254.x.x addressing to IP addresses assigned by a DHCP server. It seems Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, didn't provide an *easy* way to disable this stupid feature (idiots). they would much rather have you agonize over not getting to the interent than help you turn off something that you don't want (idiots). Hope this helps! I killed a friend's perfectly good PC with this problem and hope this helps me help him. Good Luck! Written in response to: re: CANNOT RENEW 169.254.x.x Pls HelP (Robert: Friday, October 11, 2002 at 10:53 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] CANNOT RENEW 169.254.x.x Pls HelP (JasonS: Tue, Aug 27, 2002, 1:56 pm) re: CANNOT RENEW 169.254.x.x Pls HelP (triplate: Tue, Aug 27, 2002, 2:18 pm) re: CANNOT RENEW 169.254.x.x Pls HelP (Da-Bomb: Tue, Aug 27, 2002, 4:13 pm) re: CANNOT RENEW 169.254.x.x Pls HelP (Another Mike: Tue, Aug 27, 2002, 6:13 pm) re: CANNOT RENEW 169.254.x.x Pls HelP (Greg C: Tue, Aug 27, 2002, 4:26 pm) re: CANNOT RENEW 169.254.x.x Pls HelP (Robert: Wed, Oct 9, 2002, 8:37 pm) re: CANNOT RENEW 169.254.x.x Pls HelP (JasonS: Thu, Oct 10, 2002, 11:21 am) re: CANNOT RENEW 169.254.x.x Pls HelP (Robert: Fri, Oct 11, 2002, 10:53 am) re: ***TRY THIS*** CANNOT RENEW 169.254.x.x Pls HelP (Dennis F.: Wed, Oct 16, 2002, 9:36 pm) re: CANNOT RENEW 169.254.x.x Pls HelP (JasonS: Mon, Oct 14, 2002, 7:36 am) re: CANNOT RENEW 169.254.x.x Pls HelP (4564 rthr: Fri, Feb 28, 2003, 7:27 am) re: CANNOT RENEW 169.254.x.x Pls HelP (Mat: Tue, Mar 15, 2005, 11:19 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum