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WTF: 169.254.*.*(169.254) IPs Again
Submitted by kai on Tue, 2007-10-02 21:46. ::
My Windows XP laptop's wireless card got 169.254.x.x IP address again at work, but the LAN connection still worked. Then I came home. Both wireless and LAN connections got 169.254.x.x IPs. This kind of problem has happens like twice a year.
The fix suggested by Josh Marlino's comment at aaltonen.us seems to work by resetting winsock:
Start > run > cmd ipconfig /release ipconfig /flushdns netsh int ip reset c:\tcp.txt netsh winsock reset then reboot.
But sometimes(like tonight), I had to restart my DSL modem, wireless router, and reboot my laptop multiple times to get back a valid IP.
