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Asked: 2021-12-14T12:41:54+00:00 In:

Need To Restart DHCP Client Every Time

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Hi everyone,

I have an annoying issue… Since a week or so, I can not connect to the Internet without re-starting the DHCP client through services.msc (I found and tried that solution through Google).

It seems I need to restart after every boot. I have not installed any software in-between except for the WinXP updates (which is set to fully automatic). I’m running avast! antivirus, and my system seems clean.

The desktop that is experiencing problems is wired to a Linksys router (with wireless switched off) which is in turn wired to a Thompson router/modem that connects to the Internet. All other systems in the house connect fine, so I don’t think it is a router issue.

I’m not sure if this is related, but I have a dual-boot with Ubuntu 9.10 on this system. When Ubuntu starts, there is no problem. But when it comes out of sleep, the Internet connection is also lost.

Any help here would be very much appreciated!

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      Ok, so as I read, you have 2 routers and both are running DHCP. This has to be fixed first.
      You must configure both routers to be in the same network and use a fixed internal ip address.
      E.g.:
      The first router, that also is connected to the internet:
      internal ip address: 192.168.1.1
      subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
      DHCP server: enabled

      The WAN (DSL or whatever) interface has to be configured as necessary for your provider. Most providers do assign ip addresses via DHCP. So you get a dynamic ip address at the WAN interface.

      Router 2 should have this configuration:
      internal ip address: 192.168.1.2
      subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
      DHCP server: disabled

      When you have connected both router by wire and you used a LAN (NOT WAN) port for that router to router connection, you don’t need to configure a default gateway on router2 as well as you don’t need to configure the WAN port on router 2.

      So in this configuration, the computers should get their ip addresses, subnet mask, default gateway and dns server information from the first router and should find the way to the internet.

      Make sure, that router1, which suppurts the internet access, can establish a connection to the internet.
      This can be checked in the router configuration on the status page.

      The original poster should always write the last response !!!
      Let us know, if the problem is solved !!!

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