Blocked addresses??

[JamCo]

I cannot attach a printer or any other divice to a Class C network with the address 192.168.0.229. I have changed the address of the card to .227 and it responds. The 192.168.0.229 will not respond to a ping from the Win 2000 server or with a laptop on a crossover cable. The administrator says there is no known firewall or port block on that segment of the LAN.
The address: 192.168.0.229 Subnet:255.255.255.0 Gateway: 192.168.0.241
Does anyone have a resource of blocked or unusable addresses i.e. loopback et.al..

[corturbra]

I cannot attach a printer or any other divice to a Class C network with the address 192.168.0.229. I have changed the address of the card to .227 and it responds. The 192.168.0.229 will not respond to a ping from the Win 2000 server or with a laptop on a crossover cable. The administrator says there is no known firewall or port block on that segment of the LAN.
The address: 192.168.0.229 Subnet:255.255.255.0 Gateway: 192.168.0.241
Does anyone have a resource of blocked or unusable addresses i.e. loopback et.al..

Loopback address is 127.0.0.1, on a class C subnet you should be able to use anything from .1 to .254.

Have you tried assigning the .229 address to a workstation to see if the problem still occurs? Could be you have a device with 229 assigned already which doesn't respond to pings..... another quick question, if the printer works on .227, why change?

[shanff]

Definately run an IP scanner on that subnet. See if anything responds as in use on IP 0.229. If the IP scanner isn't picking anything up, it could very well be a WinXP SP2 box or another machine with a firewall installed. Is there a DNS server on the network that you could check with to make sure nothing is conflicting?

[Ya_know]

As some have stated, sounds like something that's not responding to a ping has that address already...

You should also look at DHCP and see if a lease is there. If this address is in the lease range, you should exclude it from the range, or setup a reservation.