TCP/IP networking issues

[Ergin Dervisoglu]

Hello...

When I try to ipconfig /renew my wireless adapter to get
a new ip address from my DHCP server it gives me an error
saying something like "... can not perform operation on
something that is not a socket." So I have been looking
things up related to windows xp tcp/ip problems and
found -- Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 299357 --
which states to reset tcp/ip do the following command:

netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt

It then goes on to show what that resetlog.txt log file
should look like which has a whole bunch of stuff in it
and then at the end it states <completed>

When I do the above command it returns successfully from
the command prompt with no errors but when I look at the
log file ALL that is in there is <completed> without the
other normal log messages.

Any help on this would be hugely appreciated because I'm
stumped on why it's doing this and how I can fix tcp
without re-installing all of windows!...

Thanks in advance...

-Ergin

 

[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