IP error

[Robert Burnham]

"An error occurred while renewing interface local area
connection: an operation was attempted on something that
is not a socket."

I've got this message when I try to renew my IP address on
my new DSL connection. This is after trying to release the
IP address, without success. I made the registry changes
to Winsock and Winsock2 as suggested by MS, but to no
avail. Has anyone found any other solutions? Will
reinstalling windows probably fix this?

 

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

which MS article did you follow? I believe the way to do is delete the
Winsock and Winsock2 instead of "changes".

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[jeff]

you will get that error if you have ever had mcafee
firewall installed and removed it with add/remove instead
of using mcafee's uninstaller - the fix is to reinstall
mcafee - restart - and uninstall it by going to the
mcafee folder and clicking the uninst.exe file...

 

[Ken Wickes [MSFT]]

I have traced several of these problems to improperly configured winsock
LSPs. Run "winmsd" and go to Components/Network/Protocol. Look at the
names in the list, anything with "MSAFD" in it or the "RSVP xxx Service
Provider" should be fine. Anything else is suspect, and uninstalling the
owning program might help.

If that fails or your provider list is empty, you may need to rebuild the
catalog from scratch. The following instructions will rebuild your catalog
for TCP/IP. If you are using any other transports (If you don't know, then
you probably aren't) then you will have to reinstall them as well.


1. Backup and delete the following registry keys

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock2

2. Reboot

3. Go to the network connections folder, right click the icon for your
network connection, and select properties.

4. Click install, choose "protocol", and click "add..."

5. Click "Have Disk...", enter "\windows\inf", click OK

6. Select "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), click OK

7. When the process in complete, reboot


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