"169.254.0.0" DHCP and ZoneAlarm Pro Locking

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Joan Edington

Hi,

I've scoured the groups and have found several posts regarding the I/P
address "169.254.0.0", being that which APIPA allocates when the DHCP
server is unavailable for any length of time. That I can understand,
but not my own particular problem which I am sure several ZoneAlarm
Pro users also have.

My Win XP PC accesses the Internet (broadband) via an eTec ADSL
router. This router allocates my I/P address, presumably acting as a
DHCP server would.

When not using the PC I always lock ZoneAlarm. Now, every time I
unlock it, my network has disappeared, to be replaced by the New
Network "169.254.0.0".

The only way I can get round this is to re-boot the machine. Surely
this shouldn't be necessary. My partner uses Win2K through the same
router and doesn't have this problem.

Please can someone give me a clue of any way to avoid having to
re-boot or leave my system open at all times.

Thanks.

Joan
 
Try going to Network Places..View Network Connections and right click on
your connection and select repair.
 
Thanks for the reply Lance. However, I don't get a repair option when
I right-click on my network connection. Might it be held somewhere
else in XP?

Joan
 
If you are on a router just manually set your ip and your dns. otherwise I
would try to maybe switch ends of the ethernet cable. You may also try
release and renew tcp/ip through the command prompt.

Then again I may be wrong
 
Lance. I should have looked a bit harder. It was under Settings /
Network Connections rather than Network Places but the repair works
just fine and quickly too.

Thanks for the pointer.

Joan
 
You're welcome...I'm glad it helped.

Joan Edington said:
Lance. I should have looked a bit harder. It was under Settings /
Network Connections rather than Network Places but the repair works
just fine and quickly too.

Thanks for the pointer.

Joan
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