IP stack problems

[casper114]

I can't for the life of me figure out why my father in-laws computer can't renew his ip address, I have tried everything I can think of! The last thing that I want to try before taking the format plunge is rebuilding the ip stack. Does anyone know exactly how to do it?

 

[avey]

I asume he is running XP, This might help:

http://www.petri.co.il/reinstall_tcp_ip_on_windows_xp.htm

 

[nweaver]

get ethereal and see if you can see the dhcp requests go out/and or come back. If you have an old school hub and another computer, then you can sniff from there and get a good idea.

I would also blow out the adapter in device manager.