Manually set 169 address's?

RWBRWB Icrontian
edited May 2006 in Science & Tech
As crazy as it sounds I have had two calls over two days which the guest had this done, yet they never did it themselves. Can the computer change this setting to manually set itself a hard IP like a 169 address(which is obviously bad).

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  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    Sorry for the short description... kinda busy today grr....

    Anyways, we have DHCP so they should obtain a 10.x.x.x IP, but a couple times now they were 169 and seemed to be connected fine(but cnanot browse) and the last thing I would check is if they have a manually set IP.. when I did I see it's TYPED IN AS 169.x.x.x!!! I asked if they did this and nope... they wouldn't know how anyways. Just wierd.
  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited May 2006
    Hey RWB,

    169.x addresses are default addresses set by Windows/Operating system when a DHCP address can not be obtained. I have seen this pop up when a DHCP scope is full, or the DHCP server can not be reached. I'm surprised that it said it was manually set though? are these Windows 2K/XP machines? It should still say 'Let DHCP determine address automatically' in the IP properties window..
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    Yep... I know the 169 and what it stands for.... they are running XP. I mean I fixed them both... still wierd
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