DCHP Allocator Problem

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Greg

I have two machines networked by crossover that can
connect fine with fixed addressing. Normally the WIN XP
machine is an ICS host, and a WIN Me machine is a
client. Problem is, now, the Me machine cannot find the
DCHP server.

I have:
- connected by fixed addressing to test hardware,
- disabled all firewalls on the host,
- reset the TCP IP stack using "netsh int ip reset
resetlog.txt" off the Knowledgebase,
- re-run the wizard,
- release and renew connection with winipcfg on "Me" does
not help, nor various attempts at re-start,
- checked Event viewer on XP (host)upon start-up, no
issues seen,
- checked services - DCHP Client is running, stopped and
re-started,
- tried an earlier restore point.

Any ideas please?

Thanks
Greg
 
I had a similar problem, where it suddenly stopped
working. If you do an ipconfig at the command prompt,
does it show a 169. something IP address and nothing in
the DNS above the IP address?. I switched my client to
static IP but you need to put in the DNS entries. On XP
Home the DNS is mshome.net. There is a Knowledge Base
article that refers to setting up static IP, and if you
search the Knowledge Base for mshome.net it will find the
article. The same article has the relevant DNS info for
XP Pro.
Hope this helps you
Dave
 
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