Anders strand-Holm wrote:
> Goddag igen Lem (means hello again Lem)
>
> Thanks for your reply. We have only a DELL desktop and a DELL laptop
> connected wirelessly to the Netgear WAP.
>
> I get the error even when only the desktop is accessing the wireless router.
> I did address NetGear support team as I feel the subject problem resides with
> the router. I did already check the DHCP settings - I did reset the TCP-IP
> stack and optimized the TCP settings on the PC.
> Perhaps I will have to hard reset the router and reconfigure it. I holds the
> most recent firmware but as NetGear is quite new to me (I used to run
> Linksys) I was a bit surprised to learn that the NetGear WAP retained all
> settings even after the firmware upgrade. When upgrading my old Linksys
> 11Mbps router, no settings were retained and the router had to be configured
> from scratch again.
> Did I forget anything ?
> Thanks, Lem.
>
> "Lem" wrote:
>
>
>>Anders strand-Holm wrote:
>>
>>>We are running WPA-PSK, MAC-filtering and password protected router access,
>>>so I dont think we have an intruder among us, however the thought did strike
>>>my mind as we had conflicting IP addresses on the old wireless router.
>>>Lem, I searched all over my NetGear router and could find nowhere "to flush
>>>the DHCP tabels" - Being danish, I'm not sure I know what power recycling
>>>means (turn on power and turn it off again) in regard to the router.
>>>
>>>"Lem" wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Anders strand-Holm wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I get this warning in the Event Viewer every time I log on my wireless network:
>>>>>Event Type: Warning
>>>>>Event Source: Dhcp
>>>>>Event Category: None
>>>>>Event ID: 1005
>>>>>Date: 09-08-2006
>>>>>Time: 06:12:23
>>>>>User: N/A
>>>>>Computer: XXXXXXXXXX
>>>>>Description:
>>>>>Your computer has detected that the IP address 192.168.1.4 for the Network
>>>>>Card with network address 000C416C8647 is already in use on the network. Your
>>>>>computer will automatically attempt to obtain a different address.
>>>>>
>>>>>I'm not sure what causes this. It seems that the Wireless router will not
>>>>>renew the IP address for the computer. The network address is unique and only
>>>>>one computer posses this. So why "already in use" ?
>>>>
>>>>This sounds like you've set a fixed IP address of 192.168.1.4 for the
>>>>wifi NIC in your computer, have left the DHCP server in the router
>>>>turned on, and the DHCP server has already assigned that IP somewhere
>>>>else. Check the DHCP table/log in your router to see what MAC address
>>>>is associated with that IP. You may have an intruder or you may simply
>>>>have to flush the router's DHCP's tables. Try power cycling the router.
>>>>
>>
>>Goddag Anders,
>>
>>By "power cycling" I did mean to turn the router off and then back on.
>>But that was only a guess. I also have never seen an option that would
>>specifically cause the router to release all of the IP addresses that it
>>had assigned and then re-assign them. I guessed that turning the router
>>power off might accomplish this. You might also try disabling the
>>router's DHCP server and then re-enabling it. You also, however, should
>>first look in the router's table that correlates IP addresses with MAC
>>addresses. I believe Netgear calls this the "Attached Devices" menu.
>>
>>You said that you "had conflicting IP addresses on the old wireless
>>router." Do you have more than one device on this network that is
>>acting as a DHCP server? Do you have more than one router? Do you have
>>any Windows XP machine that has "Internet Connection Sharing" turned on?
>> If the answer to all of those questions is "no," I'm not sure what
>>else to suggest, other than basic troubleshooting advice:
>>-- disconnect all devices from the network except the PC that was
>>giving the error message;
>>-- reboot (and presumably, it will not show the duplicate IP address
>>error); check the PC's IP address using ipconfig;
>>-- add back network devices one at a time, rebooting the first PC each
>>time;
>>-- when the duplicate IP address error comes back, investigate the last
>>device you connected.
>>
I can't think of anything else. Like you, I'm more familiar with
Linksys than Netgear.
Good luck.
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