[Johno4566]

hi guy i upgraded my internal 100mb lan card and got a 1 gb lan card from the router it goses though to 2 dlink 1 gb switches


and when i plug the cable to the new lan card i get automatted priavte adress


but when i plug it back into the onboard lan ti conects fine


my network is setup to get ip from the dhcp
i has been reladed as i needed one but the error did not fix it self

as i know about network and made them heaps of tiem first time this has happend

all help is welcome if more info is needed juts ask

[Mike0001]

How mnay different cables have you treid?

[Johno4566]

tryed diffent cables made no diffence

[mbonwick]

Well an Automated Private Address is what you get when the computer can't find a DHCP server to get an IP addrss

HTH