Why IP addres is: 225.225.225.225?

[Denis54]

My daughter is presently travelling in Belgium with my notebook computer that runs under Windows ME. She has access to a local network in the appartment where she lives, but so far is unable to hook up to the internet. When she runs WINIPCFG, the IP address is 225.225.225.225.

When she executes "Release all" and then "Renew all", she still gets 225.225.225.225 as an IP address.

What should she do? I have never seen such an IP address in the past.

 

[AFB]

Is it set to "Obtain an IP address automatically" ?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Have her talk to whoever is running the network there.

 

[SpunkyJones]

Thats a class D address, it is used for multicast assigments, see RFC 3171. Its invalid.

 

[KpocAlypse]

Have her talk to whoever is running the network there.

EDIT: Also, doubled checked to see if its not hardcoded correct?

 

[Denis54]

Thanks all for your inputs. It turns out the problem was a faulty cable.