You may want to set up a network card manually in order to solve a problem where your network card fails to receive an automatic address through DHCP, or if you want to use a particular IP address on a system.
If your network card fails to receive an automatic address due to an error or because DHCP is not supported on your device, following this process for setting a manual address will allow you to communicate with your D-Link device.
If you want to run a server on your LAN machine, you need to have a consistent address so that the router can always send the incoming connections to the same machine.
Manually Configuring a Network Card for TCP/IP in Windows XP
NOTE: This section assumes that the client computer is running Windows XP and is using the D-Link default settings for a router. The same objectives no matter which operating system is running on the client, but the actual steps may differ. •Click Start, click Control Panel, click Network and Internet Connections, and then click Network Connections.
•Right-click the network connection that you want to change, and then click Properties.
•On the General tab, double-click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) in the "This connection uses the following items" list, and then click Properties.
•On the General tab, click Use the following IP address. Configure the entries as follows:•IP Address: The IP address you chose for this client (for example, 192.168.0.165).
•Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
•Default Gateway: 192.168.0.1 note: your router is almost always your gateway
•Click Use the following DNS server addresses, and then type 192.168.0.1 in the Preferred DNS server box. note: you may need to use your ISP's DNS server address(es) here if your gateway device does not relay DNS lookups •Click OK.
If you changed the address in order to configure your D-Link device, you must now attach a network cable between the D-Link device and your computer, and then configure your device using its TCP/IP address. The default TCP/IP address is mentioned in the manual.
Tip when changing from a DHCP address to a static address: Do an IPCONFIG /ALL and write down these settings first, then use them while completing the steps:
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-40-CA-48-C8-A8
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.106
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 4.2.2.1
4.2.2.2
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