[574] in resnet
Re: winME ip oddness.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fabio A. Seminario)
Thu Dec 13 10:30:57 2001
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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:30:18 -0600
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From: "Fabio A. Seminario" <fsemin@KU.EDU>
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I had this problem with an off-campus ISP, generally i found that people
recommended that i specify the DNS servers manually instead of through DHCP
on the client PC... seemed to work. You may aswell give it a try.
Fabio Seminario
University of Kansas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Caroline Couture" <caroline@POBOX.UPENN.EDU>
To: <RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 8:46 AM
Subject: winME ip oddness.
> But then again is there anything else? :(
>
> I have a situation that is similar to others that folks have experienced
> with Windows ME and networking.
>
> We have a student who is using Windows ME on a Sony Vaio laptop. He is
> using a 3com pc ethernet card (3c575-tx).
>
> He can obtain an ip address via dhcp.
>
> He cannot reach certain web sites but can reach others with no problem.
The
> web site he currently can't reach is www.time.gov which works just peachy
> for me.
>
> Odd things about this are:
> 1. His ip address ends in .0
> 2. winipcfg lists an adapter that doesn't seem to be the 3com one. It
lists
> an FE575
> 3. It takes a long time for him to get an address via dhcp when I release
> all/renew all. One time it didn't get and address at all.
>
> I have deleted the winsock2 key from the registry and deleted everything
> from the network control panel and the problem still exists. I also
removed
> DUN and reinstalled it.
>
> Any clues or suggestions?
>
> I think that the problem is the ip address and I've spoken with our
> networking folks about pulling that address from the pool.
>
> Thanks!
> Caroline
> *****
> Caroline Couture
> College House Computing * ITSS Senior -- DuBois and Harrison
> caroline@pobox.upenn.edu * 215-573-3887
>
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