Reply #15: FYI that address is not internet routable [View All]

[Cronus Protagonist]

Just in case anyone thinks so. Even if the ip was acquired, the computer would not be able to access the Internet without a proxy server doing the job for it. It would be inaccessible from the Internet inbound too.

Local broadband hardware will assign addresses in that range to equipment attached to it and then act as a proxy server for the internal network.

If these machines are logging error messages like that, it indicates that there is an onboard adapter installed and it is bound to TCP/IP and set to request an IP address from a DHCP server.

If the machine has a built-in ethernet adapter in the motherboard as most puters do now, this would explain the messages - it's not connected so the NIC (network interface card) could not obtain an ip address as it was instructed to do by the bound TCP/IP protocol that was installed.

And an aside, a digiboard is not an ethernet adapter. It's a specialized telecommunications device that connects computers vie regular POTS, usually, and was often used to create multilink BBS systems in the heyday of pre-arpanet days. When the card is plugged in, it would provide several 8, 16, 32 etc phone lines access to the computer, unplugged, it would do nothing.

I hope this clears up some of the confusion.



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