Strange IP's

Setup:

Broadband--XP--W98Se--Printer

Why are the computers assigning the 169.xxx.xxx.xxx heirarchy of IP
addresses to my network adapters? Filesharing works but ICS does not.

Marcus

"Rob Morley" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> In article <NRSZa.1778$(E-Mail Removed)>, please-
> reply-via-newsgroup-th@-i-posted-to.com says...
> > Setup:
> >
> > Broadband--XP--W98Se--Printer
> >
> > Why are the computers assigning the 169.xxx.xxx.xxx heirarchy of IP
> > addresses to my network adapters? Filesharing works but ICS does not.
> >
> Because they can't find the DHCP server, so they guess an address.

Any ideas why they can't?

Marcus

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reply-via-newsgroup-th@-i-posted-to.com says...
>
> "Rob Morley" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed) .com...
> > In article <NRSZa.1778$(E-Mail Removed)>, please-
> > reply-via-newsgroup-th@-i-posted-to.com says...
> > > Setup:
> > >
> > > Broadband--XP--W98Se--Printer
> > >
> > > Why are the computers assigning the 169.xxx.xxx.xxx heirarchy of IP
> > > addresses to my network adapters? Filesharing works but ICS does not.
> > >
> > Because they can't find the DHCP server, so they guess an address.
>
> Any ideas why they can't?
>
No, sorry, I don't use ICS. Have you tried removing and reinstalling it?

>
> How is your BB conned to your XP and how is your XP conned to your Win98?

NTL Cable --USB--XP--Eth.--Crossover--Eth.--W98se--Parallel--Printer

> ICS has to be enabled on the `connection' to the BB. It then defaults to
> 192.168.0.1 and issues numbers in the 192.168.0.2 - 254 range to any other
> device that requests one.

I try "repairing" the "Local Area Network" in XP network connections, which
is the connection between the two, but I get "Repair operation failed -
could not renew IP address, please contact your system admin. or ISP" (but
I'm not calling expensive and useless NTL technical support). Sometimes when
I unshare and reshare the internet connection, I get an error message "The
system is unable to accept control messages at this time." The XP firewall
is off, but I have NIS2003. This doesn't affect the problem as it is the
same, enabled or disabled

>
> 169.xxx.xxx.xxx is the default number that windows issues if it can't
find a
> DHCP server.

On the W98se box, I do "Start > Run > winipcfg", but clicking "release" does
nothing. Clicking on "renew" does nothing for a while, but after a couple of
minutes I get a message "Error renewing IP address: Could not find DHCP
server. Any ideas why?

Looks like a full reinstall is in order, but I'm waiting until XP SP2 comes
out, so I can make a slipstream CD and avoid all the hassle updating.

Marcus