Warning message - relevance?

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George

My home network seems to be working ok. I can access my
Windows 95 Packard Bell with my Windows XP Hewlett-
Packard (and vice versa). But because the operating
systems are different I couldn't use the wizard to set it
up so I had to do it by hand.

I get the following warning message in the system part of
event viewer (local):
Your computer has automatically configured the IP address
for the Network Card with network address 00045A650F48.
The IP address being used is 192.168.0.3.

Should I do anything about this? What does it mean?

Thanks.
George
 
This message means that your netcard is configured to use DHCP, but could
not get a DHCP address. Probably there simply is no any DHCP server in your network.
So it automatically assigns a random address from special range (so called APIPA).
You may want to assign static IP addresses. Or better, since it is working for you, leave it as is.
If this does not make sense - just don't worry, everything is ok.
 
"Pavel A." said:
This message means that your netcard is configured to use DHCP, but could
not get a DHCP address. Probably there simply is no any DHCP server in your network.
So it automatically assigns a random address from special range (so called APIPA).
You may want to assign static IP addresses. Or better, since it is working for you, leave it as is.
If this does not make sense - just don't worry, everything is ok.
Click to expand...

Pavel, 192.168.0.3 is a normal IP address, not an APIPA IP address,
and it shows that the computer DID contact a DHCP server. The APIPA
address range is 169.254.x.x.

That message is normal, George, and everything is fine. It means that
your computer's network card successfully obtained an IP address from
a DHCP server on your network. If you've enabled Internet Connection
Sharing on the XP computer, it's providing the DHCP server.

If the message bothers you, here's how to turn it off:

1. Run the registry editor.

2. Open this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\DHCP

3. Add a DWORD value named "PopupFlag", and set it to 0.
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Steve Winograd said:
Pavel, 192.168.0.3 is a normal IP address, not an APIPA IP address,
and it shows that the computer DID contact a DHCP server. The APIPA
address range is 169.254.x.x.
Click to expand...

thanks Steve, I stay corrected. used to believe that tcpip logs different events in case of normal DHCP, or fallback to
alternate address. Now I see that it logs event id 1007 in any case. A little confusing... :(

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