[khazars]

Back again, with the same problem but different scenario!

First off, when I shut down my pc and turn off the cable modem and then reboot the cable modem goes through the same thing as before, not able to renew the IP address, but If I just click disable the connection in Network connections and then re-enable it, it automatically gets an IP address and it's ok. The address it gets when it stalls is 169.254 as stated above by whoever it was lol!

Anyway, the issue now is, I have an old compaq which I have set up as a dedicated firewall using IPcop. I have a cat5E crossover connecting my pc to the old compaq. The Compaq has 2 Nic cards, one for Green and one for Red. I'm using a straight through cat 5 cable to connect the cable modem to the compaq box.

However, when I try and connect to the net it is getting the 169.254 scenario. How can I rectify this and obtain an IP address using the Red nic card instead of using the nic card in my PC?


cheers Khaz