Linksys router assigning 192.168.1.36

[Dave Morrell]

My Linksys router gets in this habit from time to time of assigning one of
its clients the address 192.168.1.36. When this address is assigned, the
client can't see the network, nor can the network see it. Pinging times
out. Interestingly, this seems to happen when when 192.168.1.100 is not
being used by another client machine. DHCP is set up to start addressing
with 192.168.1.100.

If I reset the router, nothing changes. But if I unplug it for fifteen
seconds, it goes back to normal, assinging the formerly unconnected machine
to 192.168.1.100.

Any idea what's causing this?

 

[Rick Wintjen]

My Linksys router gets in this habit from time to time of assigning one of
its clients the address 192.168.1.36. When this address is assigned, the
client can't see the network, nor can the network see it. Pinging times
out. Interestingly, this seems to happen when when 192.168.1.100 is not
being used by another client machine. DHCP is set up to start addressing
with 192.168.1.100.

If I reset the router, nothing changes. But if I unplug it for fifteen
seconds, it goes back to normal, assinging the formerly unconnected machine
to 192.168.1.100.

Any idea what's causing this?

Perhaps you have your TCP/IP IP settings set to set this address as an
alternate, if DHCP fails. WinXP has this option, on the Alternate
Settings tab in the TCP/IP properties.

 

[Dave Morrell]

Thanks, I'll check that. Any idea how to find out what's causing DHCP to
fail?

 

[Dave Volke]

I too have a Linksys Router and I had a similar problem whereby DHCP would
allocate a different IP whenever my PC was rebooted. I needed a fixed IP to
access from work. Best thing you can do is turn off DHCP on the Router and
allocate a fixed IP setting in the windows TCP/IP setup. You can still use
the same range that you was using (192.168.1.2 upwards). Dont forget to do
the same for all PC's connected.

 

[Dave Volke]

I too have a Linksys Router and I had a similar problem whereby DHCP would
allocate a different IP whenever my PC was rebooted. I needed a fixed IP to
access from work. Best thing you can do is turn off DHCP on the Router and
allocate a fixed IP setting in the windows TCP/IP setup. You can still use
the same range that you was using (192.168.1.2 upwards). Dont forget to do
the same for all PC's connected.

 

[Dave Volke]

I too have a Linksys Router and I had a similar problem whereby DHCP would
allocate a different IP whenever my PC was rebooted. I needed a fixed IP to
access from work. Best thing you can do is turn off DHCP on the Router and
allocate a fixed IP setting in the windows TCP/IP setup. You can still use
the same range that you was using (192.168.1.2 upwards). Dont forget to do
the same for all PC's connected.