First off, I am a noob to networking, IP address, this website, Port Forwarding, and stuff so please explain everything detailed or even better, "step by step" form (my favorite lol).

So I wanted to create a shoutcast server on my computer for my website, so I created a static IP address, then I Port Forwarded 8000 and 8001 to shoutcast and after I got shoutcast working, I restart my computer and every time on windows xp startup the router status says "Acquiring Network Address"
But when I click Repair, it works successfully and that router status changes to Good and is no longer "Acquiring Network Address"

I hope you all can help me!
Thanks
brianjw

above shouldn't be doing this.

did you set the Static IP in windows xp and not the router?

to set a Static IP in window xp

How to set up a static IP address on a Windows XP computer

or

Static IP

What he means is Windows is saying Acquiring Network Address on it's connection. Yeah simple solution would be to set a static IP on your computer.

When it's "Acquiring" do you have net access? I've seen Windows give false messages like this for me.

Do you have any (software) firewalls? Those can frequently cause the address assignment to fail if the load order strays from ideal.

What I am saying is that, yes the static IP is already set through my computer and I actually used the first link John posted.
I use Norton 360 as a firewall, it hasn't blocked things like this before...
I haven't tried accessing the net when it does this, I will try it next time I restart my computer.

OK. After checking after restarting my computer today, I cannot access the internet on any websites when "aquring network address" is displayed which will continue to display until I click repair. It does this on every startup. Again, the static IP is made through this computer and is 192.168.1.136

This is certainly strange behavior because, with a static IP on your computer, Windows shouldn't even be trying to acquire a network address.

Therefore, as a cross check, please do the following:

1. Open a Command Prompt via Start | Run and typing "cmd" (less the quotes).
2. From the resulting Command Prompt window, type "ipconfig /all".
3. Right click on the window, choose Mark, and use your mouse to drag a selection box over all of the text.
4. Right click on the highlighted text to copy it.
5. Paste the results here in a new reply for us to review.

Well. It won't let me copy it so, I will just write what everything says directly out of the window:



If you need any other information just ask! Thanks

Hmm, well that's how the network connection should be configured.

To try and alleviate the Acquiring prompt though, I would temporarily switch it back to DHCP and then afterwards go to static once more. 'cause maybe something was missed during the binding process.

I'm wondering if he is having a related issue to what I had: http://board.iexbeta.com/index.php?showtopic=72536

I wonder if disabling that service causes any changes. Might be worth while to see, even for my benefit. Vice versa I will set a static IP on my machine and do a reboot and see what it does with that service enabled.

Edit: Applied a static IP of 192.168.1.144. Had the same issue of slow network connect with the Workstation service enabled. When the icon changed to "I know there is a conection there but I dunno what I'm doing/Acquiring Network Address" I could browse the internet no problem, then the icon turned to the regular connection icon.

I guess it's not the same issue. I would still try disabling the workstation service to give it a try.

I agree with Taco though, re-apply the static IP and see what the does.

Oh and here's a question... Wired or Wireless?

So, I take off the Static IP I set up and put it back on again?

Edit: I took off the static IP address and put it back on again. I havent entered any value in Alternate DNS field or whatever it is, would that cause problems?
I am going to restart now and see if it does aquiring network address...

Edit2: I restarted and it didn't show the "Aquiring network address...."
I will see what happens next time(s) I restart and post back if it happens again.

I actually wondered if you might have skipped the Alternate DNS settings before, and you definitely need to configure those in order for the Internet to work.

Thank you to all that helped me. I got it working perfectly with my Shoutcast Server on my computer now and it no longer has those issues. If only I knew that I had to enter the alternate dns and that would've fixed it lol.

brianjw

Well, I assumed you had entered the Alternative DNS settings based on the ipconfig results and the fact that both of the suggested walkthroughs called out that step.

However, I'm glad you got it working man and a belated welcome to ieXbeta.