RE: msft 169.254.173.250 IP address

I dare to comment on this again :) Have you tried other PC's behind your 7975? We have a few 7975's here at office and I haven't experienced the same problems you are mentioning with their internal switch. Does your PC exhibit the same behavior when plugged directly into the wall? And did you say it was 15 mins or 15 seconds? Does a repair of the NIC still go through the timeout and do you eventually end up with an IP address? And what is running DHCP (AD intergrated / Linux / FW / router)?

This has been a valuable process for me about re-reading the question, during my studies I do tend to solve the problem within the first two sentences :)

-ryan

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Sadiq Yakasai
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 4:53 AM
To: Dale Shaw
Cc: Cisco certification
Subject: 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
>
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