I have a home network (Win98) and a Linksys BEFSR41 router. My ISP is Comcast with cable modem. I installed Windows 2000 on one computer and I cannot connect to the internet with it. The other 2 pc's are OK.
My router is assigning me an adress of:192.***.*.*** but when I do a ipconfig command I get a response of: 169.254.***.***
I have the TCP/IP settings to obtain the IP automatically as the other pc's are. If I plug in the IP address the router assigns me I still cannot access the internet.
Right now set either to automatic or static IP I can see the other computers on the network but not the internet or my router. If I try to access the router via typing the router IP address into my ie 5.0 browser it times out and cannot see it.
Has anyone had this problem or know any solutions to it?

Hi:

The 169.254.*** *** IP addy you see is created by Windows auto ip configuration whenever it can't grab an IP from the network. The MS theory begind this is that if the connection goes down, all the PC's on the subnet can still communicate with each other. Some "feature." If my connection goes down for even a minute I have to reboot, as the CLI command does not release the 169 address. This was a problem in 98 and there is a registry hack for it. I'll assume there is such a fix for the W2K registry as well.

From the command prompt: ipconfig/release

What you might try doing is assigning a static IP for the W2K box. Do this at the router and on the box itself. Then reboot. If all your other settings are correct you should be ok.

I prefer static IP's on a small network anyway.

Good Luck

I am experiencing the same issue with a win2k
machine on my home network as well.
I will try the ipconfig/release command and see if that will renew my dynamic IP address.

Let me know if you find anything else to prevent this from happening.

Thanks
Stuart

I have the same problem that I have been
trouble shooting for a while too.
I checked the network and found out it was
the win2000 that is causing the problem.
But installing win98 on it fixes the problem.
This is the only solution I came up with.
If anyone knows a good solution to fix it
without getting rid of win2000 please say so.

Update 7:00 PM Sunday.
Thanks for all the responses and info. gg
I ran a few ipconfig commands and came up with this:
My network card does not have DHCP enabled
My network card does not have TCP/IP enabled
So far I cannot figure out why but I am pursuing this avenue.
I used the ipconfig command with /release , renew, all, etc to find this out and try to fix it.
I have the TCP/IP enabled and checkmarked everywhere I can see to do this.
Gotta be some little bugger somewhere.....
I'll find it and post the answer.

Sorry, I forgot to respond to dr oneill.
I did set the IP address static. It does
give me the correct response for ipconfig as far as I now show at the assigned address that i sin my router, but no internet cause my NIC has no TCP/IP or DHCP enabled.

We are trying to connect our new Windows 2000 system as a client to an existing LAN (employing a Linksys router) in order to share a high speed connection. The server system is running Windows NT. It has one NIC connected to an ISP via DHCP and the second NIC connected to the LAN using Private (192.168.0.*) static IP addresses. The Windows 2000 system can ping the server system (192.168.0.1) but cannot resolve IP addresses via the DNS server (also 192.168.0.1). All non-Windows 2000 systems (I have two Windows 95, one Windows 98 system and the Windows NT system) have no problems connecting to this LAN and through it to the Internet. I have disabled the DNS Client service and have made a number of suggested registry changes, but nothing seems to work. Please help!

I had the same problem and I found out the computer is trying to take the place of the router. When you are dealing with dhcp, the computer tryes to take the last known good ip and mine was taking the routers. I then manually put in the next dhcp number into the win2000 box to make it remember it. Once it was in, I removed it and set it to dhcp and it then took the dhcp from the router. Problem solved. As far as adding the Win2000 box to a NT network. Make sure port 139 is open on the win2000 box. It uses it to talk to the NT box. How are you setting the box up. Have you disabled any services.

Finally on line with my W2k op system. Its a drag booting to 2 different drives!!.
The solution so far has been to plug into the TCP/IP General tab all IP addresses and the DNS server numbers found in my router. These are the ones the router DHCP is assigning me.
I also had to punch in the DHCP address from the router into the Connections\Lan Settings in my brower and email (outlook Express). This has me going for now but I still wonder how i ever would have gotten on without knowing these numbers because using "obtain an IP address automatically" or 'auto detect settings' got me nothing and nowhere! I intend to try again as soon as I resolve the other glitches W2k has in store for me as I continue to load.
gg

Hi I', having problems with my new BEFSR41 linksys router.

I have 3 computers, each one uses a different ip. I was used to use a common 8 port hub. Now i have this linksys router.
HEre is my problem. Since each comp has 1 different IP I dont know how to setup the router to keep my 3 comps with its original IP numbers. HOw can i set it up to solve the problem??