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Windows XP pro - Cannot connect to Internet when using static IP
Howdy,
I've recently upgraded (?) to Win XP and am running into the following problem:
Computer is connected to a small office network via a wireless NIC, I am using a Belkin wireless router that connects to our DSL and acts as a DHCP server. The router is at 192.168.1.1. If change the TCP/IP setting for the NIC from 'acquire IP automatically' to a manual setting of 192.168.1.200, then I can still connect to the network - all network shares etc. are intact - but the internet connection no longer works.
Didn't have this problem in Win2K - not sure what to do. I have turned off the WinXP SP2 firewall entirely - I went and disabled it in services - so I'm assuming that's not it. Gotta get this working because the application gateways on the router require a static IP address.
Thanks!
I've recently upgraded (?) to Win XP and am running into the following problem:
Computer is connected to a small office network via a wireless NIC, I am using a Belkin wireless router that connects to our DSL and acts as a DHCP server. The router is at 192.168.1.1. If change the TCP/IP setting for the NIC from 'acquire IP automatically' to a manual setting of 192.168.1.200, then I can still connect to the network - all network shares etc. are intact - but the internet connection no longer works.
Didn't have this problem in Win2K - not sure what to do. I have turned off the WinXP SP2 firewall entirely - I went and disabled it in services - so I'm assuming that's not it. Gotta get this working because the application gateways on the router require a static IP address.
Thanks!
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Sorrym, forgot to say -- I tried to set a DHCP reservation for the mac address of the computer to be assigned .200, but I could not find a setting for this in the router software - I don't think it supports it.
Your DHCP server (the access point?) will have to assign you the correct DNS (usually the lan ip address of the router)
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dohh! that was simple. thanks guys!
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I ran a tracert successfully to google, so maybe I am just not resolving names? how do I fix this?
Also; while I had the NIC IP set manually, I tried browsing to several web sites using the IP addresses (google and some sites I run for which we have static IPs), and got 'connection refused' errors - whereas trying to browse the same sites using the friendly names, I got 'connection cannot be found' errors. Don't know if that helps or means anything.