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heed_from_wi

join:2004-01-19
La Crosse, WI

HOME appears on my network connected via wireless.


I have a Linksys router running WPA. I was allowing 6 connections to my router prior and today dinking around I checked my table of connected users.

There were my three computers and then a "HOME" connected via wireless. I changed my encryption and then I decided to change the allowed computers to only 3.

The problem is that two of my computers will connect fine and the other will pull a 169.

My DG is 10.0.1.59

My two computers are pulling : 10.0.1.61 and .62 .. leaving .60 open? Why will my third computer not pull the .60 address? Is it possible that someone is on my router and I can't see them on the router log?

Any help would be awesome, fill in some blanks please!

docrice
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join:2008-03-31
Fremont, CA

I'd do a packet trace on the third machine and look at the DHCP negotiation (in Wireshark, the filter is "bootp"). Windows likes to try and request the address it was previously using, but in failing that, I noticed on some occasions any attempt at a new address won't "stick." If you haven't already done so, do an:

ipconfig /release

followed by:

ipconfig /all

(assuming this client is Windows). On the other hand, I've also seen instances where someone else took the leftover address because they had statically configured it on their client and when another client tried to get this address, once it does a gratuitous ARP it finds that another machine on the network has an identical address. This is followed by a DHCP decline from the requesting client. Something else to look for in the trace.


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