At this stage it is not clear whether this is a VPC or a Windows
problem. Pinging the router -- which I had tried, of course -- does
not succeed and tells me "request timed out."
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 09:00:35 -0700, Doug LaRue wrote:
>** Reply to message from "Hakan" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:49:04 -0400 (EDT)
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>Since your Windows virtual machine connected with the router and optained its IP
>address, wouldn't you think this is a Windows problem and not an OS/2 or VPC problem?
>
>DHCP uses TCP/IP so it would seem that your networking is working and now you
>have a Windows configuration issue. My guess is that a Windows forum/list is now
>a better place to look for a solution.
>
>FYI, try pinging your router and /or also use that IP address in your virtual machines web
>browser to see if you can get the managment display. If both those work, you've got
>a DNS problem with Windows.
>
>
>> But surely the DHCP request has not failed since I do have an IP
>> address from the outside??
>>
>> On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 21:11:27 -0600, Will Honea wrote:
>>
>> >** Reply to message from "Hakan" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> on Wed,
>> >08 Aug 2007 21:50:44 -0400 (EDT)
>> >
>> >Make sure the address assigned is within the appropriate range - Windows has a
>> >bad habit of quietly assigning a default IP if the DHCP request fails, leaving
>> >you to shouting into a black hole..
>> >
>> >> I have Win 2000 running nicely under VPC 5.1 on eCS 1.2MR but am having
>> >> problems getting connected to the net. When I type ipconfig /all in a
>> >> command prompt window I can see that I have an IP address from the
>> >> broadband router but I am unable to ping anything on my LAN, nor am I
>> >> able to use IE to get on the net at large.
>> >>
>> >> Clearly there is a setting/step I have missed but what could it be?
>> >>
>> >> TIA.
>> >>
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