Windows message associated with wireless router??

While running a total antivirus scan on my computer, I got the Windows
message box that said " the system has detected a conflict for IP address
192.168.1.100 with the system having hardware address 00:0E:35:6F:3E:33 The
interface has been disabled." I know the IP address is associated with
configuring the Linksys Router, but I am reluctant to talk to Linksys tech
support due to bad past experiences.

Anyone have an idea what this is telling me? I do not appear to be having
any problems and am connected to the internet OK. Do you think I should
restore a previous system registry, using the system restore feature on
Windows ME.?

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"Les" wrote in message
> While running a total antivirus scan on my computer, I got the Windows
> message box that said " the system has detected a conflict for IP address
> 192.168.1.100 with the system having hardware address 00:0E:35:6F:3E:33
The
> interface has been disabled." I know the IP address is associated with
> configuring the Linksys Router, but I am reluctant to talk to Linksys tech
> support due to bad past experiences.
>
> Anyone have an idea what this is telling me? I do not appear to be having
> any problems and am connected to the internet OK. Do you think I should
> restore a previous system registry, using the system restore feature on
> Windows ME.?

"the system has detected a conflict for IP address" is pretty much exactly
just that, an IP that is already assigned for something else is trying to be
assigned to that PC. You just need to figure out where and why.

No, don't worry about the registry or restoring anything. This conflict is
more than likely something very simple and easily fixed. Hard to know
without knowing your network setup though.

Where do your IP's get assigned from? Are they dynamically assigned from
the router's DHCP? If so, make sure the PC's TCP/IP properties for it's
network hardware are set to receive all IP's (local, gateway, mask)
automatically. This is the easiest way to setup. Just enable the router's
DHCP server and set all the client's hardware to receive IP's automatically
and be done with it. One note on this though: on one rare occassion, one of
my routers had a "ghost IP" for a PC that was brought offline about an hour
prior to my laptop connecting to it. My laptop was given the same IP as the
"ghost IP". Both IP's were listed in it's table as active. It didn't cause
any errors, but could have resulted in the message you got. I simply just
rebooted the router to "flush it out". Happened just once. Strange.

If you want to use static IP's, just enter the IP's in the router's static
database based upon their MAC addresses. The PC's TCP/IP properties can
either be set to "automatically obtain IP's" or you can manually enter
them -- doesn't matter. I use statics, but keep all the clients set to
"manually obtain IP's". (Thought process being it allows the router's DHCP
do what it wants to do, hand over IP's even if they are static.)

Also, unless you need to do something funky, ICS (Internet Connection
Sharing) shouldn't be enabled. ICS is basically a "software router and DHCP
server". In a simple single network, it is going to bump heads with a
hardware router.

Sounds like something very simple. Just start by looking at the tables/logs
and see who all has been getting 192.168.1.100.
(Strange that it only happened while doing an AV scan though. Usually,
thats something that you would see right away. AV doing anything funky
like, for who knows what reason, disabling and then re-enabling network
connections, during scans? Confused router?)

Cheers
Eric

"Les" <lester123_nospam@adelphia.net> wrote in
news:XC2We.35495$vJ4.28516@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com:

> While running a total antivirus scan on my computer, I got the Windows
> message box that said " the system has detected a conflict for IP
> address 192.168.1.100 with the system having hardware address
> 00:0E:35:6F:3E:33 The interface has been disabled." I know the IP
> address is associated with configuring the Linksys Router, but I am
> reluctant to talk to Linksys tech support due to bad past experiences.

That 00:0E:35:6F:3E:33 is a MAC of the NIC (Network Interface Card) all
cards wired or wireless has a unique MAC for a card.

Here are some examples of how to determine the NIC MAC of the computer's
NIC. You should identify all NIC MAC's that are accessing your network

http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/register/macHelp.html

The only times I have seen that message at work is when another machine
on the network was being assigned the same DHCP IP on the network my
machine was already using and was trying to access/get on the network --
the conflict.

>
> Anyone have an idea what this is telling me? I do not appear to be
> having any problems and am connected to the internet OK. Do you think
> I should restore a previous system registry, using the system restore
> feature on Windows ME.?
>

You can check the IP that is being assigned to a NIC'S MAC in the
router's DHCP table logs. You should not be getting the conflict because
the router is going to assign IP(s) based on the NIC's MAC and the
machine should be getting the same IP based on MAC assignment. There
should be no conflict unless two computers active on the network are
conflicting for the same IP.

Now, it could be a sign that someone is trying to hack your wireless
network by being slick in trying to access your network by giving his/her
machine's NIC a static IP on your router of 192.168.1.100 even though
it's a DHCP IP to one of your machines, which there will be no log entry
for their NIC's MAC in the router's DHCP table logs when using a static
IP other than your own computer's MAC. It could be away of covering
tracks by using the same IP you are using when your machine is not on the
network using the 192.168.1.100, possibly your machine is turned off.

I don't see why someone couldn't do it. And you wouldn't know if it was
happening possibly due to the router not have a logging feature where you
could review network traffic to/from the router by LAN IP(s) to remote
Internet IP(s). You could possibly look at the traffic for 192.168.1.100
and determine that your machine that should be using 192.168.1.100 was
not on the network at that time and you don't recall accessing the remote
IP site, which you can determine who the IP belongs to by using something
like Arin Whois. But the router must have the logging feature and
possibly using a log viewer like Wallwatcher.

http://www.sonic.net/wallwatcher/#Routers

You want to find out about a remote IP you enter the IP into the Search
Whois box.

http://www.arin.net/index.html

It's possible I would think.

Duane :)