I have an SMC 4 port router that I intended to use with my cable modem on my XP box. I know this router works with DSL because I had it set up at a friends house, and it worked fine. Here is my delimma. When I follow the instructions that SMC 'tech support???' sent me, I get the following message: 'An error occured while renewing interface Local Area Connection. Unable to contact your DHCP server. Request has timed out.' According to the instructions, this (IPCONFIG/RENEW) is the last step in the basic setup process before getting connected. Everything up to that point works well, or at least the way it is supposed to. Since I can't seem to find anyone els e that has an answer, what would you suggest I do?

Check to see if the DHCP Server on the Barricade is enabled. If it is disabled you will not be able to renew. Hope that helps.

I had the same problem...turns out it was my network card. I replaced my D-Link card and everything worked fine.

Hi, I realise that the SMC Barricade / XP problem was posted a while back but I had exactly the same problem but after much experimentation, I found the cause of my problem. I went to Network Connections / double clicked on Network Bridge / selected Properties / unchecked Local Area Connection. This automatically placed my Local Area Connection under the LAN or high-speed Internet heading and everything worked. XP immediatly contacted the router which assigned the necessary TCP/IP details and bingo! Hope this helps. Regards, Ken.

This is also caused by windows xp being told to be a firewall. I am not in front of my xp box at the moment, but basically under the network properties there is an option to use internet connection sharing and/or enable firewall, you need to disable this.

Any advice about a SMC Barricade, ZyXel Omni net Plus/D ISDN TA and XP? Thank-you

I got the same error and tried the above remedies. I am still getting the same "An error occured while renewing interface Local Area Connection. Unable to contact your DHCP server. Request has timed out." message. I get it with both my wireless (Linksys) and Kingston NICs. I checked that the card is not the problem (I connected directly with a static IP with the Kingston card). HELP! I am running XP Pro, SMC Barricade - my mac runs fine off the dhcp server.