Thanx for the help. I will use either windump or ethereal. But then, I have no idea what to look for, or what type of "search" to run. Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanx Michael ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 5:33 AM Subject: Re: [nycwireless] Help with my Wireless connection at school > Hi, > > I really havent been on 98SE for a while but it could be that your DHCP request is being routed wrong, > alot of items are just automatically handled in future windows versions, you could also be running > firewall software on your own that is blocking DHCP? (ports 67/68). > > If I had a Win98 machine right now w/ those problems Id download some kind of tool (windump or ethereal) > to see how the packets are being handled if @ all. Also make sure your not running any kind of sharing > junk because it could be running its own type of DHCP and your basically requesting packets from > yourself. > > Not sure if that helps your problem but worth a try to recheck your machine. > > - Jon > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 08:00:25PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I spoke to the IT person, who said that it doesn't appear that the > > machine is getting the IP info from the AP/DHCP. I ran winipcfg, and while > > at school, I often times can't release the IP, and when I attempt to renew > > the IP, I get, "Error DHCP server unavailable: Renewing IP" Also, alot of > > the times, the winipcfg program will stop responding, and then, all of a > > sudden, come back to life, and then I get the same error as before. And of > > course, it doesn't work. HOWEVER, if I attempt to release and/or renew the > > IP when I am at home, at Starbucks, or "Borrowing" someone elses AP, it > > works fine. > > -- > pgp key: http://www.jonbaer.net/jonbaer.asc > fingerprint: F438 A47E C45E 8B27 F68C 1F9B 41DB DB8B 9A0C AF47 > -- > NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ > Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ > Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
