Being forced Restart each time I make a change to my network settings

tomED · 29-09-2004 1:56pm #1

Ok another strange one. I run windows xp pro.

For reasons too long to explain here - i regularly change my network settings to go switch between to networks......

However, just today, each time I make a change to the settings (as in just my ip address, subnet mask and gateway) I am being told I need to reboot.

This has never happened before.... anyone else encounter this?

Thanks
Tom

tomED · 29-09-2004 2:04pm

sorry guys got it - the dhcp server was down.... but not sure why that caused it!

Tom

Capt'n Midnight · 29-09-2004 2:24pm

Don't ya just love the way 98 / NT / 2k(XP) behave differently depending on whether they can detect a network connection / DHCP server on it.

there is an app that allows you to choose several settings - can't remember what it is called.

also in XP you can change the autoconfig IP addreess in TCP/IP advanced so if a DHCP server is not available you fallback to a static IP

also you can run an app like dhcpsvr.exe to hand your machine an IP address. the neat bit is you use 127.0.0.1 as the server

tomED · 29-09-2004 2:43pm

oh yeah i love it to bits!

Thanks for the tips man !!!!

Tom

Being forced Restart each time I make a change to my network settings

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