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im networking two computers together and was wondering how my ethernet adapter can obtain and ip adress
 
If you are using a "router" you can not, you must assign
an ip, buy a switch instead they are cheap and are more
efficient, faster..

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im networking two computers together and was wondering
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how my ethernet adapter can obtain and ip adress
 
im networking two computers together and was wondering how my ethernet adapter can obtain and ip adress
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Timmy,

Are you using a NAT router? If so, the DHCP server in the router will issue an
address.

If you are networking them directly, with a crossover cable, there will be no
DHCP server, and the two computers will self assign APIPA addresses:
<http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;220874>

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
 
how my ethernet adapter can obtain and ip adress
If you are using a "router" you can not, you must assign
an ip, buy a switch instead they are cheap and are more
efficient, faster..
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Careful on passing out this incorrect information like it's fact. You
are wrong.

A Router can and will hand out IP addresses if it is set up as a DHCP
host, and most broadband routers do exactly that.
 

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