Renew IP Address

Hello Sanjshah,

The problem is, that your ip addresses are not being renewed because your DHCP server is not giving the computers an IP address.

You can manually configure your IP addresses or login to your router to check your DHCP settings and check if your DHCP server is running.

If you want to manually configure your IP address, make sure the ip addresses are exactly in the same range as your router ip address.
The router ip address is also the ip address of the standard gateway.
The same way for your DNS server. you can type the ip address of your router here also.

I hope this helps.

Is your internet router up and running?

I agree --  you should manually add an ip address to your local area connection, along with dns.  I have had some problems with Dell laptops where only after adding a static IP, rebooting, then reverting back to DHCP cleared the issue.

Thanks for your reply, looking at the router:

Router/Gateway Address: 192.168.1.254
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0

Range - 192.168.1.64 - 192.168.1.253
Allocated 16
Reminaing 174
Timeout 1440

Broadband IP Network
IP Addressing Obtain IP Address autoatically (dynamic or DHCP)
DNS Obatin DNS information automatically

Disable Routing
Enabled (Default is enabled. Routing disabled = Bridge mode)

SO this looks like I have done everything right?

Yes 2 of the PC's can access the Internet (albeit very slow and sometimes does not work)

Yes that looks good --- give your PC an IP address of 192.168.1.90 (or any # between 64 - 254);
                                                               subnet:  255.255.255.0
                                                               gateway and primary DNS:  192.168.1.254

Let us know if this lets you connect.  If so, you can either keep this IP, or reboot, swich back to DHCP and you should be out of the woods.

Can you ping your DHCP server from one of the working devices?

Magic, I tried with
IP address of 192.168.1.100
subnet:  255.255.255.0
gateway and primary DNS:  192.168.1.254

but no internet just access to the other PC's

where you have gateway and primary DNS:  192.168.1.254

I added the Deafult Gateway as 192.168.1.254,
should I also add 192.168.1.254 as a Preferred DNS Server?

I've also found this list for Static Route List - (not sure what this means)

Subnet IP            Subnet Mask            Gateway IP             Interface
127.0.0.1            255.255.255.255            127.0.0.1            lo0
192.168.1.254      255.255.255.255            192.168.1.254      bridge0
10.47.110.209      255.255.255.255            10.47.110.209      bridge4
81.130.1.49            255.255.255.255            81.130.1.49            ppp0
217.37.131.126      255.255.255.255            217.37.131.126      bridge0:2
192.168.178.254      255.255.255.255            192.168.178.254      bridge3
81.134.64.1            255.255.255.255            81.134.64.1            ppp0
81.130.1.49            255.255.255.255            81.130.1.49            bridge0
217.37.131.120      255.255.255.255            217.37.131.120      bridge0:2
10.47.110.208      255.255.255.255            10.47.110.208      bridge4
192.168.1.0            255.255.255.255            192.168.1.0            bridge0
192.168.178.0      255.255.255.255            192.168.178.0      bridge3
127.0.0.0            255.255.255.255            127.0.0.1            lo0
0.0.0.0            255.255.255.255            81.134.64.1            ppp0


rochey - how do I ping the DHCP server?

Your DHCP server is the IP address of your router, in your case 192.168.1.254.  Have you tried your cable in any other ports on your hub?

Hi,

Go to one of the two PCs that still have a DHCP address and do

ipconfig /all

look for the DHCP server address

then use

the ping command

ping <address of DHCP server>

Magic,

I've tried the cable from the PC that works but still no internet, tried different ports on the hub still nothing.

Rochey - 192.168.1.254 is the DHCP I'll try the ping.

You mentioned you have rebooted your hub -- have you also rebooted your router as well?

Magic,

The router is not ours and positioned in another companies office so I am unable to do so, although I had a visual look at the router - the other company does not seem to have a problem.

See if you can ping 192.168.1.254

Is there any chance the two PCs that can connect were left on in your office overnight, and the machines that cannot connect were booted this morning?

yes that is possible - in fact I remember they said they had access this morning, but the others probably did not boot-up at that point.

I will ping tomorrow when I am back in the office, I just want to go in with all the options to try and test.

I will also take with me a new hub (just in case)

Good luck

What options do I have if I am unable to ping 192.168.1.254?

I would say there is a (temporary) problem with the router.  One PC not connecting, most likely local.  2 PCs not connecting simultaneously, I would say it is a hardware error.  Is there any way you could reboot the router eaither first thing or at the end of your work day?

Check the router and any switches between it and your PCs.

I will try and reboot first thing in the morning - so should not bother too many people - I hope this does the trick.

If these suggestions don't work, Try running a anti-virus scan and Spybot (or another anti-malware) scan. I've had them cutoff internet connection.

I didn't see where you mentioned what your DNS servers were set to (when you configured statically).  You can try pinging 2.2.2.4 (or some other known "pingable" public IP) to see if it is DNS resolution.  If you get a response, the your DNS is not working.

Try setting static DNS  to something like 205.171.3.65 & 205.171.2.65  (Qwest-US DNS servers) and see if that gets you on-line.  
You could also check your `hosts' file (for XP = c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc) to Hosts.old - or something like that - and see if that works.

Thanks guys for your input, I tried rebooting the router - no luck, then because of a power cut (lucky for me) the other company had to reboot their server and BANG everything working again.

Just for future why should that work, does this server create the IPA addresses?

Their server is probably handling your DHCP and possibly DNS also.

Is there no way to bypass this (just for the future)

Yep that sounds like good idea, I've requested our own line but wanted to know incase this happens again.

Thanks again to you and all the other replies