My university provides ethernet. I have had it up and running for a year without problems. Two days ago, I got home from work and had lost my network connection. I figured the proxy was down, or a dhcp server was down. Anyway, everyone around me has a working connection. So I check my network settings, everything looks correct. For all I try, I cannot get an IP. I've tried on win98se, windows me, win2k server, win2k pro and get the same error:
DHCP server unreachable
What could be the problem?? I have tried different networks cables and different NIC's. The protocals are set-up correctly. I talked with our computers services group, and they said their server did not show a connection to the ethernet jack in my apartment, even though everything is plugged in. One weird thing--in win2k, I have the line speed set to "auto detect" and it detects the speed at 10 megabit. So I think there is some connection. My thoughts -- either the jack went bad, or the jack has been set to deny on some DHCP server. Any other thoughts? this is really confusing me.
DHCP server unreachable
What could be the problem?? I have tried different networks cables and different NIC's. The protocals are set-up correctly. I talked with our computers services group, and they said their server did not show a connection to the ethernet jack in my apartment, even though everything is plugged in. One weird thing--in win2k, I have the line speed set to "auto detect" and it detects the speed at 10 megabit. So I think there is some connection. My thoughts -- either the jack went bad, or the jack has been set to deny on some DHCP server. Any other thoughts? this is really confusing me.