Weird IP address picked using DHCP
- From: "WiLLerZ" <willerz69@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 15 Apr 2007 21:56:07 -0700
When I was home for the Easter weekend, I set up a wireless network
for my parents. I tested everything before I left and it all seemed
to be fine.
A couple of days after I left, my Mum couldn't connect to the network
anymore. After talking her through a few things, I discovered that
she was getting assigned some really random IP address (something like
169.255.etc) instead of what the network was set up on (standard
192.168.etc). I got her to change the settings to choose a manual
address which was OK for a day or so, then she had issues as it
claimed there was a conflict of addresses (she had good signal
strength, but limited or no connectivity because of this issue). I'm
hesitant to get her to try another manual address because I only set
up a limited range of trusted IP addresses for her firewall, and she
will find it too hard to add more (can't talk her through it as I've
only seen her firewall software twice, so I can't remember where
everything was).
This seems really random to me, and I'm not sure why the address she
is getting assigned isn't correct - their network is the only one
listed in the network list to automatically connect to.
Any thoughts?
.
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