Long Startup Time with no DHCP Server

[Tom Salicos]

My system uses "TCP/IP Networking with Client" and is set for "Automatic IP
Address" but there is no DHCP server. There is a long delay while the
system looks for a DHCP server before it sets an automatic IP address.

Is there a way to shorten or eliminate that delay?

Thanks,
Tom Salicos

 

[danis]

By Automatic IP address you mean the IP address a computer receives
from XP if it does not find an DHCP server, an APIPA IP address? If so
try adding a new DhcpRetryTime dword value, and set there a time in
seconds. The default retry time for a dhcp server is 5 minutes, and
modifying this DhcpRetryTime I think will give you sooner an Apipa
IP.
But to change the time interval a computer searches for a DHCP server
you need to modify HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\tcpip
\Parameters
"AutonetRetries"=dword:300
As you see, the default is 300 seconds, that is 5 minutes. You will
have to add AutonetRetries, because is not there by default. The time
you'll set this will not be exact, it will be +-30 seconds.

Hope it will help!

 

[Tom Salicos]

Thanks Danis,

I tried that and it did not work for me. Yes, it is the APIPA address that
I am getting, and don't want to wait for the default "DHCP Timeout" period.
The parameter "AutonetRetries", I believe, is how many seconds between
attempts to find a DHCP server, not the timeout period for each time it
tries.

I went further in Google Groups and found out that NOBODY IN THE WORLD knows
how to change that value. It may well be a "hard wired" value.

Thanks for responding.

Tom Salicos