need help releasing automatic private ip address

[zogg]

How can I get windows xp home to release the automatic private ip address 169.254.161.220
so that it will detect my routers 192.168.0.100 address

 

[wlee]

Open a DOS Command Promt. type in " ipconfig /release all " Are you sure your router is config as DHCP server ? You may want to check, then power cycle the router and reboot the computer.

 

[stash]

You cant release the auto configured address...you just renew. If there is a dhcp server that has a valid address, then you will get that address.

 

[zogg]

I fixed it...what I finally did was uninstall the adapter, shutdown the computer, then then the router, then the cable modem.Then I turned on the cable modem first, then the router then the computer and I got the proper IP address.

thanks anyway everyone.

 

[easternerd]

all that wasnt nessacary..
just do a ipconfig/release
and then a ipconfig/renew

 

[zogg]

ipconfig /release didn't work in winxp

 

[stash]

As I said before, you cannot run ipconfig /release to release a APIPA address. If everything on the network (DHCP, the workstation itself) is configured correctly, an ipconfig /renew will get the IP from the DHCP server.

But you cannot release it...thats the whole point of APIPA.