Text 6324, 90 rader
Skriven 2005-03-28 13:47:50 av Gerald Miller (1:342/512)
   Kommentar till text 6295 av Jeff Guerdat (1:106/2000.0)
Ärende: lan
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Hello Jeff,

    Responding to a post in the WIN95 area:
    On Monday March 28 2005 at 06:01,
    Jeff Guerdat [1:106/2000] wrote to Gerald Miller,
    about: lan

 GM>> I'm not sure if the ZoneAlarm or router firewalls are responsible for
 GM>> the local IP Address change but I am suspicious of ZAP.

 JG> Zone Alarm has no effect on network address - it works once you have
 JG> an address from the router.

I thought as much, but I had to explore possibilities...

 GM>> I had thought that the original NIC may have turned "rogue" on me.
 GM>> So I replaced it with another DLink NIC.  W2K detected the hardware
 GM>> change and I had to step through the driver update wizard.  When
 GM>> all was said and done, IPCONFIG /ALL said the Win2K IP Address was
 GM>> 169.254.203.4 with a Subnet Mask of 255.255.0.0.

 JG> That's the DHCP address used by the NIC/OS to talk to a DHCP server to
 JG> gain a real address.  If that's what you saw, the router wasn't
 JG> supplying an address for some reason.  Given enough time (several
 JG> minutes) the address would have finally changed to 0.0.0.0, also
 JG> useless.

The "169" address would have given me a class B network -- a PITA to get to
talk with the XPP box.  Pretty much useless and I quickly realized that
fact.

 GM>> That didn't fit within the IP range of addresses as set by the
 GM>> router, so I pulled up Network Properties, changed "Autodetect IP" to
 GM>> manually configure and set the IP Address to 192.168.2.xxx with
 GM>> Subnet Mask of 255.255.255.0 and Default Gateway of 192.168.2.x.

 JG> Forcing it works fine as long as the router doesn't try to ALSO assign
 JG> the same address to another computer.

Right now, that won't be possible.  I tried to run WfW311 and I've got some
kind of file corruption with Windows for Workgroup -- running Defrag or
Speed Disk is messing with Windows.  :-((

I hope the router doesn't try to assign the same address to the XPP box --
it's my only Windows box that is connected to the Inet!

 JG>> Changing workgroup names has no effect on the IP address - they're
 JG>> separate issues.  The address is basic TCP/IP while workgroup names
 JG>> are all about MS Networking which runs *on* TCP/IP but also on other
 JG>> protocols.

 GM>> There seems to be an enormous number of protocols within TCP/IP!

 JG> Actually, they ride on top of TCP/IP.

"I know everything, but not all at the same time" is my philosophy.  I'm
still trying to learn all this stuff and get a better handle on the stuff
that I _think_ I've learned.  [g]

[trim]

 GM>> Still no Inet connection and I can't hook up with the mailserver...

 JG> I'd try to determine why you can't use DHCP - that will give you the
 JG> DNS server settings needed to access things outside your LAN.  You can
 JG> manually set them but it should be working properly.  If you think
 JG> it's ZA, disable it for the time being.  Work on one problem at a
 JG> time...

DHCP seems to be an issue and it is confusing the H#ll out of me!  There is
a DHCP client server on the XPP box (I know because I use my web browser to
activate my SMC router configuration manager and a status screen tells me
how many DHCP clients are running, their IP addresses, their MAC addresses,
and their network names).  Now, do I require a DHCP client server on the
Win2K machine as well?  It seems to me that there would be a conflict
between the router and two DHCP client servers...  ???

I've disabled ZA's ability to run its client software on Windows startup
(for now).

I'll fight with the network and IP addressing problems for another couple
of weeks and if I can't resolve things by then, I'll likely be so
frustrated, go purchase another HDD and do another 'virgin' install of W2K;
it was definitely much easier to set up a "new" network.

           Cheers ... Gerald

... Ignorance is a lack of knowledge.  Stupidity is ignorance with pride.
--- GoldED+/DPMI32 v1.1.5-040330 [msg of Monday March 28 2005]
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