

If you can configure it to allow theĭHCP server for your network to communicate, then do so. The firewall may end up blocking yourĬomputer from the DHCP server. Some firewalls, especially older ones, are not intelligent enough toĪdjust to certain networks. Temporarily disable or reconfigure the firewall:.Your computer can see the network, but something else is interfering 0.0.0.0: An IP address of all zeros means that.Your computer doesn't even see the network. Troubleshooting is involved at this point, but the bottom line is that ItĬould be as simple as an unplugged network cable, or it could be asĬomplex as the network being down.

When you see a .x address, you definitely have a problem. In thoseĬases, the computer will actually give itself an IP starting withġ69.254, since it must assign itself some sort of number. Unfortunately, if there's no networkĬonnectivity, the computer is unable to talk to the server.

An IP in this range means that the computer cannotĪ computer using DHCP needs to have an external server tell

Information here may no longer be accurate, and links may no longer be available or reliable.Ī computer needs an IP address to use the Internet. My DHCP server just dishes out addresses on the 0.x network, and I don't care if it issues any addresses to the 1.x network at this time I was going to make all the addresses on the 1.x network STATICĪny help here would be greatly apprecieated, oh great and powerful dragons.This content has been archived, and is no longer maintained by Indiana University. So here is where I got confused and quit for the day before I did any real damage.Īny Ideas about steps I may have missed or anything I may have overlooked in this change. I try to set an IP address of a laptop at 192.168.1.100 with subnet mask 255.255.254.0 and gateway of 192.168.0.2 and DNS server at 192.168.0.1 and the message says that I cannot have a gateway on a different network. So I change the subnet mask on every device I can think of on the network (switches, servers, printers, ect.) I did some reading and it seems the easiest and most efficient way to do this was to change my subnet mask to 255.255.254.0 I recently needed to expand the network for future use.
