Incorrect IP address

How to change starting default ip address assigned by
DHCP. Win9x automatically starts with 169.254.x.x. How
can this be changed to 192.168.x.x? All help is greatly
appreciated.


Dawn

Answered here:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Netw..._20736607.html

Carey

"Dawn" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:080401c3d4d5$f5ce0cb0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> How to change starting default ip address assigned by
> DHCP. Win9x automatically starts with 169.254.x.x. How
> can this be changed to 192.168.x.x? All help is greatly
> appreciated.

In article <080401c3d4d5$f5ce0cb0$(E-Mail Removed)>, "Dawn"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>How to change starting default ip address assigned by
>DHCP. Win9x automatically starts with 169.254.x.x. How
>can this be changed to 192.168.x.x? All help is greatly
>appreciated.

I'm sorry, Dawn, but it isn't possible to change it. Please see this
Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

How to Use Automatic TCP/IP Addressing Without a DHCP Server
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=220874

Here's an excerpt from the article that explains why. Allowing the
user to change it would defeat its purpose, by opening the possibility
that it would conflict with routable addresses:

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved
169.254.0.0-169.254.255.255 for Automatic Private IP Addressing. As
a result, APIPA provides an address that is guaranteed not to
conflict with routable addresses.

Note: that address isn't actually assigned by DHCP. It's only
assigned when a network connection is configured to obtain an IP
address automatically and there's no DHCP server available to make the
assignment.

Why do you want to change it? There might be another solution to the
problem.
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