Re: msft 169.254.173.250 IP address

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314067
If your local IP address is returned as 169.254.y.z with a subnet mask of
255.255.0.0, the IP address was assigned by the Automatic Private IP
Addressing (APIPA) feature of Windows XP Professional. This assignment means
that TCP/IP is configured for automatic configuration, that no DHCP server
was found, and that no alternative configuration is specified. This
configuration has no default gateway for the interface.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/220874 two or more pc's configured for dhcp
but can not find a dhcp server will automatically assign themselves a
169.254.x..x address and will be able to commincate with each other.

Have you tried hard coding the IP address?

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Sadiq Yakasai <sadiqtanko_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the link man! But....you obviously did not read the email to its
> end :-)
>
> Thanks anyways,.....any other takers?
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:34 PM, ALL From_NJ <all.from.nj_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Here is the link to the RFC, the first couple of paragraphs provides a
> good
> > overview and summary.
> >
> > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3927.txt
> >
> > Basically you PC is not able to communicate w/ the DHCP server so it
> > automatically assigns itself an address per the RFC.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Andrew Lee Lissitz
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Sadiq Yakasai <sadiqtanko_at_gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Guys,
> >>
> >> I have done abit of googling but to no avail...but does anyone have any
> >> information about this IP address on Windows XP please?
> >>
> >> The PC is doing DHCP straight away but I am still seeing traffic sourced
> >> from this IP address on a wireshark trace, which is kinda weird. Appears
> >> to
> >> me like the PC assigns itself this IP address right before assigning the
> >> IP
> >> address from the DHCP server.
> >>
> >> PS: There is no delay what so ever from the DHCP server and the client
> >> does
> >> NOT timeout on DHCP.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >>
> >> Sadiq
> >>
> >>
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