>On 4 Dec 99, at 16:07, Doug Simmons wrote:
> >
> > My son running a Pentium III 400 home-built machine with a generic
> > Ethernet card, using Win 98 on a collegiate network.  He can get on
> > the network and can see other machines in network neighborhood.
> > However he cannot query other machines either by browser, ping or
> > get mail.  Using winipcfg he can see that his ethernet card has an
> > IP address assigned but the adapter does not have an address.

At 12/6/99 02:58 AM , Dave Gillett wrote:

>   Can you pop up an MS-DOS prompt and run "ipconfig /all >foo.txt",
>and then post the foo.txt file?  That will show us all the info in
>winipcfg, and more, in plain text form.

This is the results of ipconfig /all
(He only has one physical ethernet card- Realtek):

======================================
Windows 98 IP Configuration

         Host Name . . . . . . . . . : BRASSMAN
         DNS Servers . . . . . . . . : 198.82.247.66
                                       198.82.247.98
         Node Type . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
         NetBIOS Scope ID. . . . . . :
         IP Routing Enabled. . . . . : No
         WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . : No
         NetBIOS Resolution Uses DNS : No

0 Ethernet adapter :

         Description . . . . . . . . : PPP Adapter.
         Physical Address. . . . . . : 44-45-53-54-00-00
         DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes
         IP Address. . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
         Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
         Default Gateway . . . . . . :
         DHCP Server . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
         Primary WINS Server . . . . :
         Secondary WINS Server . . . :
         Lease Obtained. . . . . . . :
         Lease Expires . . . . . . . :

1 Ethernet adapter :

         Description . . . . . . . . : PPP Adapter.
         Physical Address. . . . . . : 44-45-53-54-00-01
         DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes
         IP Address. . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
         Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
         Default Gateway . . . . . . :
         DHCP Server . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
         Primary WINS Server . . . . :
         Secondary WINS Server . . . :
         Lease Obtained. . . . . . . :
         Lease Expires . . . . . . . :

2 Ethernet adapter :

         Description . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8029(AS) Ethernet Adapt
         Physical Address. . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00
         DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes
         IP Address. . . . . . . . . : 198.82.115.40
         Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
         Default Gateway . . . . . . : 198.82.115.1
         DHCP Server . . . . . . . . : 198.82.247.98
         Primary WINS Server . . . . : 198.82.162.243
         Secondary WINS Server . . . : 198.82.247.98
         Lease Obtained. . . . . . . : 12 06 99 11:24:16 AM
         Lease Expires . . . . . . . : 12 07 99 11:24:16 AM

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