I'm trying to figure out the LAN situation at my work, having some trouble. Any help?
There's a wireless connection which seems to fluctuate. We've got hardline LAN plugs in each office as well. I think these just act a extension cords through the wall, and the other end should be plugged into a router, correct?
When I do plug it in, it says its enabled but has 'no internet access' on both IPv4 and IPv6. It comes to this conclusion after thinking about it for a good long time.
The head cheese is under the impression we have a password on the LAN. I wasn't aware you could even set a password on LAN. I thought routers only let you set passwords on Wireless connections, and for LAN you could choose to tie it to a MAC address. I guess I'm ignorant on that front.
Where would I even enter a password, the connection does everything on its own and never asks me for a password. It just tries and gives up. I have, sadly, a whole lot less experience with LAN than wireless.
Any direction is appreciated.
Posted Mar 22, 2010, 4:15 PM UTC
Don't you have any sort of IT support there?
There's no password authentication for ethernet, you are correct. It sounds like you are not getting DHCP, which is a protocol for automatically assigning IP addresses to computers attached to a network. In a home enviroment DHCP would be provided by whatever small router device was present. In a corporate network, it would more likely be provided by a server of some sort.
You open a command window and type ipconfig, you will see the addressing information for your networking adapters. If the address starts with 169.something, you have a DHCP problem.
Thank you for the response. At least I can narrow it down now. Good to know there aren't ethernet passwords. As least I'm not crazy on that front.
Thanks again
Edit: Sadly no IT support that gets back to us within 24 hours.