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jamie.benning · 07-07-2004, 15:47

Last week I set up a small home network between my Mac (Panther) and PC (XP) with a Linksys Wireless router and a Belkin wireless PCI in the PC.

The internet (via NTL cable modem) has been working fine but this morning the PC has lost its IP address and defaulted back to 169.XXX... However the wireless connection is still functioning and the router can still see the PC

I have the Linksys router set up to Clone to Mac address of the PC so there should be no problems.

Rebooting the XP machine seems to solve the problem. Any ideas?

07-07-2004, 15:47	#1
jamie.benning Inactive Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 48	Wireless PC Keeps losing IP Address - Help! Last week I set up a small home network between my Mac (Panther) and PC (XP) with a Linksys Wireless router and a Belkin wireless PCI in the PC. The internet (via NTL cable modem) has been working fine but this morning the PC has lost its IP address and defaulted back to 169.XXX... However the wireless connection is still functioning and the router can still see the PC I have the Linksys router set up to Clone to Mac address of the PC so there should be no problems. Rebooting the XP machine seems to solve the problem. Any ideas?