Anyone know how to reinstall TCP/IP in XP?

[TomBilliodeaux]

I have resorted to NWLink Netbios to make my Lan work.
Really need to get TCP/IP working again but it is trashed and cannot get it to bind to my connection.

How can I reinstall the TCP/IP layer in Win XP without reinstalling the o/s?

 

[Woodie]

Bump for some attention....
The TCP/IP stack appears to be hosed on this box, symptoms:

Fresh re-install of the NIC, manually configured IP addy/gateway/mask...machine fails on pings to its own IP address and on loopback pings. Pings from another machine on the same network get successful responses!

So, how can you force a reinstall of the TCP/IP stack on Windows XP?

--Woodie

 

[guyver01]

Since TCP/IP is so deeply embedded into WinXP you can't rebuild it normally.

How to Reset Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) in Windows XP (Q299357)

You have to use a built in command.

Command Usage
netsh int ip reset [ log_file_name ]

Command Samples
netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt
netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt

HTH

 

[TomBilliodeaux]

Thanks. I'll give it a try.

edit: I executed the reset and it gave me a whole bunch of info. Going thru it now.
will post it if you'd like.

Summary looks like it reset a lot of paramiters and settings.

TCP/Ip setting was reset to "obtain IP auto, Obtain DNS auto"
Cannot ping 127.0.0.2, times out.
Also 192.168.0.2 (this computers NIC address assigned by DHCP server), times out.
Also 192.168.0.1 times out. ...Connected Lan computer, which is working thru netbios.

 

[TomBilliodeaux]

Thanks to Woodie and Guyver01, I was able to re-establish TCP/IP and share my new Ethernet static connection(DirectTV DSL) thru my LAN.

This was a key:
How to Reset Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) in Windows XP (Q299357) ---see above for link. Very good info.

You have to use a built in command.

Command Usage
netsh int ip reset [ log_file_name .

This worked and reset my TCP/IP on the client machine.

I had to leave NetBios protocols installed for my LAN to work and also to keep my sharing connection back to the host NIC.

The static dsl connection is really great and faster than the PPPoE. I recommend it, as I will now tell Bell South good bye. They are a good provider here in Louisiana, but don't understand economics very well.

Thanks again Woodie and Guyver01.

 

[Hobbzilla]

>I had to leave NetBios protocols installed for my LAN to work and also to keep my sharing connection back to the host NIC.

Did you try to use NetBEUI?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q301041

 

[Woodie]

Hozilla

Excellent link...info I was not aware of. In this case (speaking for Tom) he installed IPX/SPX, and bound NetBIOS to that protocol, I don't know if he wants to bother removing IPX/SPX and NWlink, and installing NetBeui at this point. The IPX based traffic should keep his Shared Folders protected, since the IPX can't be routed to the Internet at this point.