IP Address change and confusion

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:) Hi, I'm running XP pro
I've gone in and attempted to change my ip, via... run, cmd
ipconfig/release, ipconfig/renew. after both release and renew i ge
the message "no operation can be performed on local are
connection while it has its media disconnected". I have trie
to do this both while hooked up to the internet and while off line.
in both cases i receive the same message, and am still able t
connect or stay connected to the net.

Is there something I'm missing? :retard:

Thanks so much! (i've done the search and didn't find anything an
this may even be in the wrong section,, sorry :retard
 
:) Hi, I'm running XP pro,
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Or XP pro is running you :-)
I've gone in and attempted to change my ip, via... run, cmd,
ipconfig/release, ipconfig/renew. after both release and renew i get
the message "no operation can be performed on local area
connection while it has its media disconnected". I have tried
to do this both while hooked up to the internet and while off line.
in both cases i receive the same message, and am still able to
connect or stay connected to the net.

Is there something I'm missing?
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Not so much 'missing', more than likely, you have something extra
:-) Like an extra network connection.

It's quite possible to have one media disconnected while
maintaining internet connection on another network connection. Or
even a dial-in adapter.

Type ipconfig /h for the full story.

Note, that in most cases, you are not in control as to which IP
address you use. Your IP assigns an IP address. And if you choose
to 'renew' you get the same address again and again.
 
Gerard said:
Or XP pro is running you :-)


Not so much 'missing', more than likely, you have something extra
:-) Like an extra network connection.

It's quite possible to have one media disconnected while
maintaining internet connection on another network connection. Or
even a dial-in adapter.

Type ipconfig /h for the full story.

Note, that in most cases, you are not in control as to which IP
address you use. Your IP assigns an IP address. And if you choose
to 'renew' you get the same address again and again.
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In the past I remember being able to turn everything off and being getting
a different IP assigned. What has changed? Is this the same with a dial-up
connection?

Thanks.

J.
 
In the past I remember being able to turn everything off and being getting
a different IP assigned. What has changed? Is this the same with a dial-up
connection?
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You have several options, per connection.
1) DHCP. Everything is handled by the DHCP server. That's either
your ISP or your own router, mostly.
2) Alternate address. (An XP feature). You can tell Windows which
IP-address to use if the DHCP server is not available.
3) Apipa. In the absence of 1 and 2, your PC 'guesses' an IP
address in the 169. region. And it keeps on trying to contact a
DHCP server
4) Manual assignment.
 
Thanks Gerard, now i'm totally confused,, lol :rolleyes: did the
cmn line you said, but i don't get it. is there soemthing i should
do? turn something on? off?

Dee
 
Thanks Gerard, now i'm totally confused,, lol :rolleyes: did the
cmn line you said, but i don't get it. is there soemthing i should
do? turn something on? off?
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Chances are, that you have more than 1 network connection
(according to Windows.)

If you type ipconfig /renew, Windows attempts to renew the
IP-address on the first one.
If your connection to the internet is over the second network
connection, you will hardly see any change.

Therefore: ipconfig /h
It shows you, how to tell howmany network connections Windows
sees. And it tells you, what you need to type to renew on any
network connection.
 
Gerard said:
Chances are, that you have more than 1 network connection
(according to Windows.)

If you type ipconfig /renew, Windows attempts to renew the
IP-address on the first one.
If your connection to the internet is over the second network
connection, you will hardly see any change.

Therefore: ipconfig /h
It shows you, how to tell howmany network connections Windows
sees. And it tells you, what you need to type to renew on any
network connection.
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/h??????

ipconfig /all
ifconfig /release /all
ifconfig /renew /all

For Help and ipconfig arguments: ipconfig /?
 
Thanks for all the input!

Now should all this be done while offline, or can it be done while on
do you need to reboot

Thanks
Dee :
 
Lawrence Lucier said:
/h??????

ipconfig /all
ifconfig /release /all
ifconfig /renew /all

For Help and ipconfig arguments: ipconfig /?
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USAGE:
ipconfig [/? | /all | /release [adapter] | /renew [adapter]
| /flushdns | /registerdns
| /showclassid adapter
| /setclassid adapter [classidtoset] ]

adapter Full name or pattern with '*' and '?' to 'match',
* matches any character, ? matches one character.
Options
/? Display this help message.
/all Display full configuration information.
/release Release the IP address for the specified adapter.
/renew Renew the IP address for the specified adapter.
/flushdns Purges the DNS Resolver cache.
/registerdns Refreshes all DHCP leases and re-registers DNS names
/displaydns Display the contents of the DNS Resolver Cache.
/showclassid Displays all the dhcp class IDs allowed for adapter.
/setclassid Modifies the dhcp class id.

The default is to display only the IP address, subnet mask and
default gateway for each adapter bound to TCP/IP.

For Release and Renew, if no adapter name is specified, then the IP address
leases for all adapters bound to TCP/IP will be released or renewed.

For SetClassID, if no class id is specified, then the classid is removed.

Examples:
ipconfig ... Show information.
ipconfig /all ... Show detailed information
ipconfig /renew ... renew all adapaters
ipconfig /renew EL* ... renew adapters named EL....
ipconfig /release *ELINK?21* ... release all matching adapters,
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eg. ELINK-21, myELELINKi21adapter.
 
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