cable connection

[khazars]

I have an old compaq which I have set up as a dedicated firewall using IPcop. I have a cat5E crossover connecting my xpbox to the ipcopbox. The ipcop has 2 Nic cards, one for Green/safe zone and one for Red/internet. I'm using a straight through cat 5 cable to connect the cable modem to the compaq box and a crossover cable to connect the xpbox to the ipcop box.

However, when I try and connect to the net it is getting the 169.254 scenario. How can I rectify this and obtain an IP address using the Red nic card instead of using the nic card in my PC? I have followed all the suggestions of reregistering a new nic card etc but this doesn't work. The nic for the red zone has already been registered in the xpbox and is working fine!


cheers Khaz
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I'm also using a cable modem stand alone. I can register the nIcs on problem in the xp box, but when I try to connect to the net through ipcop, I get 169.254.

[Paul K]

Have you read through
http://thoughtattic.com/security/MakeYourOwnRouter.html ?
I'm taking it for granted that you have powered the SACM down, powered off all PCs, powered up SACM, leave so that all lights stabilise, power up PCs, open browser.

[DocDutch]

go into DOS and the the following:

net stop dhcp
then after that net start DHCP see if that gives you a proper ip addy

[khazars]

Dos, you mean the command prompt?

[Raistlin]

Yep

[khazars]

I tried the stop/start dhcp, but it keeps going back to 169.254.

Any other ideas?

[khazars]

Anyone?

[steggs]

try refreshing the tcp/ip by way of the netsh command

[khazars]

cheers steggs, but that didn't work either, it just says DHCP already enabled!