Re: msft 169.254.173.250 IP address

LOL!!! APIPA - wtf!!!

Thanks for pointing this out Dale!!!

John, thats a very good observation all these gurus overlooked. Its always
good to start from basics!

Anyways, I have pinned down the problem, havent got to the bottom on the
cause though.

So, it looks like DHCP is indeed timing out! Appologies "All_from _NJ"!! My
reason to discarding this as a cause is this: I am actually plugging the PC
behind a Cisco IP phone (7975) and I notice that everytime my PC comes
online, its takes up to 15mins before the NIC of the PC becomes enabled
(really weird behaviour) and I am suspecting even without becoming enabled
(at least to the human eye) the DHCP timeout has begun. As a consequence,
DHCP timesout just when the NIC becomes enabled (about 15secs) and this
mislead me.

I need to find out why the PC NIC doesnt get enabled straight away for
now...

Thanks for all the inputs guys - well appreciated. Gave me a bit of laugh
this early morning too :-)

Sadiq

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Dale Shaw <dale.shaw_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting how only about 10% of you are reading Sadiq's original
> post properly. Hopefully it's because you're all too busy studying :-)
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:21 PM, John Porter <jporter_hm_at_hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:34 PM, ALL From_NJ <all.from.nj_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> 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
>
>
> Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
>
> _______________________________________________________________________
> Subscription information may be found at:
> http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

-- 
CCIE #19963
Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net