cant really describe this in the subject

[Six Eyed Smily]

its a bit to long.

anyway - this is an email i recived from a friend of mine - he is attempting to connect to a university network.
sadly the it staff are underpaid overworked and there are three of them. this is not sufficent for setting up a university wide network.
anyway, can you help? here is the description of the problem he sent me...


It won't recieve the correct IP address from the server. It automatically sets it as a default one. I'm recieving packets, well I was but not at the mo, havn't looked into that yet. Anyway yeah. Am recieving packets and they keep ticking up on Win2000 but we think they may be currupt, could do with getting a packet analyser, and it says I am connected but in IPconfig it's setting the servers IP address to a default one. Which I'm sure it prob does when ever it's not connected.

I've tried a friend's card in mine with the MAC address security off and it doesn't work either. Tried my card in his computer and it works.

In Win2000 the card is on the same IRQ as loads of other divices so that's a bit worrying but it seems to manage them differently and better in Win98 and it doesn't work with that either. Have reformatted and reinstalled everything which turned out to be a bit of a bugger and it still doesn't work. Have flashed the bios but that didn't make it work. Guy tested the port a while ago but it seemed to be fine. Did try a friend's computer on the port but it didn't seem to work not sure why, maybe coz the Security was back on and I didn't have any time to swap cards over but hypathetically were talking about the computer here, anyway I think I may have tested my computer over at a friend's on his port with his card, not to sure about that, and it didn't work if I did.

[MacGyver]

If I were going to that University, I would pack my bags and get my money back!

One thing you might want to look into is how the other computers connected to that network are configured. Maybe there's something simple you're overlooking...

[Drone2903]

Sounds like you are not seeing the DNS and/or DHCP server.
Make sure your IP config has the proper static gateway, dhcp and dns adress. Other than that, I dont know.
Dan

[Rellik]

I'd say first off check to make sure you have it properly attached, possibly bad ethernet cable, or wrong port on the hub, simplest is to check the link light.

hopefully the NIC is properly configured.

also go to a working machine and check all the network settings, like if it uses a static address, manual gateway and/or a manual DNS servers.

[CJK]

I agree check with the above post.

[Milenko]

Take your tower, with your nic, and move it to another location. Your friends house/dorm would do nicely. If it works, you've got some cabling problems. If it still doesn't, then something is up with yer load of 2k.

That will help narrow things down.

[Six Eyed Smily]

Thanks a lot people.

I will forward these suggestions on to him and see if they work.