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  3. February 2003

Re: IP addresses

Hi,

>She's on W98 so I did an ipconfig /release_all followed by ipconfig
>/renew_all.  The renew, which usually takes 5 seconds, took over 20
>seconds.  The IP address she got was 169.xxx.xxx.xxx (don't remember the
>last 3 octets) with a subnet mask of 255.0.0.0.  I never did figure out
>how this happened.

The 169. looks like an IP adress Windows assigns when it can't get one over
the
net. This and the 20sec delay looks like Win tried to get an address and
timed
out.

Regards,

Oliver

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