Windows 2000 / XP WNTIPCFG |
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When your Windows NT/2000/XP system is configured to use DHCP or Automatic IP
Generation, you sometimes have to check/verify the IP-address assigned to your system and sometimes you need manually request your Windows system to request a new IP-address from the DHCP-server (which can be the case when traveling with a notebook computer from one office to another office and the notebook "remembers" the IP-address of the previous office, not working in the new office unless it got instructed to "release" the old IP-address and to request a new IP-address from the DHCP-server in the new office). This is a simple and easy job on Windows95/98/ME using "winipcfg", while it is a little more complex on Windows NT4/2000/XP, which does not include "winipcfg" : |
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It is required to use : "IPCONFIG" - select from your Start-Menu: "Programs" / "Accessories" / "Command Prompt", - enter: IPCONFIG Sample Reply: |
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Note the info,
that the IP-address has been generated by the
"Autoconfiguration", not via DHCP. ( IPCONFIG can also be used to request a new IP-address: to ReNew the IP-address ) |
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Windows
XP allows to check the IP-address via "Network Connections" by displaying the "Status" of a connection ( right-click the connection , pop-up menu ) : 
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You can avoid using the command-line and
"ipconfig" by downloading from Microsoft the equivalent of "winipcfg" for Windows NT/2000/XP : "wntipcfg" (which is part of the Windows 2000 Resource-kit and available online for download) : |
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http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/existing/wntipcfg-o.asp (location of the link on Dec.14,2002, if the link does not work anymore, then please search the Microsoft website for "wntipcfg"): |
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Once you have downloaded the installation files and
executed them, then "wntipcfg" is available under "Program Files\Resource Kit": |
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You can view your IP-configuration, release an IP-address and request to get a new IP-address assigned to your system ("Renew"). "wntipcfg" works properly on Windows XP. |
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