Solved Change IPv4 Address

VFN · May 4, 2013

How do I change my IPv4 address?

I've gone to Network Settings and tried the Automatically option but that doesn't work. I've seen a few tutorials on how to change it manually but I'm not certain about how to do that, especially what number to type in.

I've also tried ipconfig /release then ipconfig /renew but that failed.

As to one tutorial: Use ipconfig /release then go to network settings to change your IPv4. In "Use the following Ip address" type a series of 1s, tab to get a Subnet mask and click OK. Go back to Ipv4 properties and this time choose Obtain an IP address automatically, click OK. Seemed Ok but thought I'd ask here cause I don;t want to mess things up.

Btw, I called my online provider and they didn't know how to do it, or the two guys I spoke to didn't.

Thanks.

VFN

townsbg · May 4, 2013

Why do you want to change your ipaddress? Is it not working? In most scenarios systems should be set to automatically receive an ipaddress otherwise there could be a conflict between the provider or other devices. If you really need to have a certain ipaddress it should be done from your modem or your router (if you have a router in between your modem and your computer). Look through your router's/modem's documentation on how to set a static address. Through this setup your computer must be set to receive an ipaddress automatically. Note if you are connected directly to a modem then the settings might have to be done by your service provider. Either way you will have to provide the router/modem with your computer's mac address. You can get that by typing ipconfig /all into the command prompt.

The reason that it must be done this way is because by setting the ipaddress manually within your computer your system may to trying to connect to the router/modem with a different ipaddress than what the router/modem is trying to give it. That will fail. The computer must either always be set to automatically receive an ipaddress or be set to match the ipaddress for the provider or you won't have a successful internet connection. Does that make sense?

VFN · May 4, 2013

I don't really understand what you wrote, nor a mac address etc.

I want to change my IPv4 because I'm having trouble entering an irc chat room. I know that IPs are usually given automatically and I've shut my modem off for over five minutes in the hopes I'd be given a new one but it hasn't worked. I've now tried to change my IP manually/automatically like this tutorial (How to Change Your IP Address Easily - YouTube) but that hasn't worked--my IP reverts from the false one I give it, and which can be seen in ipconfig, back to what I started with.

Could it have to do with me having set my network to public rather than private?

I'm lost.

VFN · May 4, 2013

My internet is working but I just realized that when I use ipconfig /renew I get the following "An error occurred while releasing interface Loopback Pseudo Interface 1: The system cannot find the file specified."

LMiller7 · May 4, 2013

Very important: Are you you using a router? Without knowing this it is very hard to explain anything.
Your public IP address is assigned to you by your ISP and is not directly changeable by you. Doing a release - renew cycle may change it but typically you will just get the same address again. This is all up to your ISP and beyond your control.

VFN · May 4, 2013

No router. Just a modem that's connected to my PC.

Yes, the guys at my ISP said it's done automatically and they can't help though I find it hard to believe it's not possible.

Maybe I should try an IRC client. I read that may be an answer to getting in a chat room that is apparently glitched.

Any idea why I get that /renew error or if it means anything important?

Thanks for responding, both of you.

VFN · May 5, 2013

Evidently, cause I can get in now, the IRC problem has been fixed so I don't need to change anything now.

@townsbg Having reread your post a few times the best I can make of it is that the modem/router is dictating or controlling the IP address given to the PC so that must be changed for things to work. Really don't understand how it works though which is par for the course when it comes to computer stuff, or unfortunately, most things for me.

Thanks.

townsbg · May 5, 2013

If you are using a modem than your ipaddress is dictated by the ISP's server and that is something that you can't change and if you try to change it on your end either it won't stay or you won't get connectivity. Your ipaddress needs to match that of the server's. An release/renew just does a disconnect/reconnect to the server which won't necessarily change the ipaddress. Now on the provider's end there are probably some of the networking people who can change it however I'm sure that they won't for domestic connections. They might if you paid them extra for a business connection but you don't want to pay for that. The help desk people aren't lying. They probably don't have the required access to change your ipaddress. Only the network administrator will.

Now I don't know much about IRC chat rooms but I doubt that changing the ipaddress to connect to the server will help. For one the ipaddress used to connect to the chat room is different than what you get because the server that you are going trough gets it's own ipaddress for connectivity to the internet. It is that ipaddress that is used to connect to other servers on the internet for your connections to websites, chat rooms, etc and that ipaddress won't change. In reality your ISP's server may not directly connect to the internet but may go through another server each of which uses different ipaddreses for the connection. It can be mind boggling for some people. Second your service provider might have the required port blocked for security reasons. If so then a change to your ipaddress still won't work. Now I know that certain programs like trillian have IRC connection capabilities to make it all easier however if your ISP has the port blocked then it probably won't work.

VFN · May 5, 2013

When you say the "Your IP address needs to match that of the server's" that doesn't mean the exact address does it? What does "match that" mean?

What your saying though makes sense, however, because I was receiving two error messages when I was trying to enter that IRC chat room. One gave an IP that had my ISP name as part of it and one was my IPv4. When I looked them up through some website I saw both were coming from the same place, that they were the same address but expressed differently. So "match" means that they're the same but expressed differently?

And as you see, I thought I may have been able to enter the chat room if I changed my IP because the error messages were citing my IP.

I also learned that my IP is obtained and released in cycles and thus getting a new IP from turning off my modem is a random affair.

townsbg · May 5, 2013

Your system needs to have exactly the same ipaddress that the server is trying to give you. Either you need to enter it in manually exactly as told by the network administrators or set your system to automatically obtain an ipaddress.

VFN · May 5, 2013

OK, thanks for your time and knowledge.

townsbg · May 6, 2013

No problem. I hope that it makes sense now.

VFN · May 6, 2013

Yes it does. I understand now why I was having the trouble I was.

Thanks again and for your patience.

VFN · May 10, 2013

Was just looking at ipconfig /all and my IPv4, which has changed since you helped me, says <preferred> next to it. Any idea what that means. No router here, just a cable modem into my PC.

Thanks.

townsbg · May 11, 2013

Intriguing. I hadn't noticed that before so I just had to pull up my virtual machine and there it is. My only guess is that you get that when your computer has accepted the address assigned to it instead of using a static address. However I don't know that for sure. May I ask why are you checking it if everything is working?

VFN · May 11, 2013

That IRC site I had trouble with before is worse now. I can't get to the site at all and instead get an Oops Chrome message that it couldn't be found. I tried with IE and that can't connect either. I had a friend try from another ISP and they too couldn't connect so I suppose it's a larger problem than myself...hopefully. I tried a few "is it down or me" sites and they seem to say the site is down, though one changed its mind once. Will see what the deal is tomorrow I guess.

Thanks for responding.

VFN · May 11, 2013

Why would one particular website checker say a site I can't load is down but two others say it is up?

Thanks

At any rate, turns out the site has been moved for technical reasons I gather. But still curious about the above question.

Thanks

VFN

townsbg · May 12, 2013

Websites use special servers called dns servers and those servers take the address that the website goes by and associates it with the server's ipaddress. If the site was moved onto another server then the dns server would have to be updated before the site will work again. Perhaps the second site is looking at the ipaddress of the old server instead of getting the information from the dns server. Does that make sense?

VFN · May 12, 2013

I'm not sure I understand. You're saying that a DNS somehow controls whether a website works, and that the DNS must know the IP and name of a website for that website to work, and thus it must update itself for that website to work if that website changes its server?

In my case, the site I was checking no longer exists because they changed the part of their address after the period. So instead of xyz.tv it's xyz.eu. How could two website checkers think xyz.tv exists when it doesn't anymore? In fact, I just checked and one checker still thinks the .tv address is up. Is it because this checker is not looking at the DNS as you said? Why would it look at the old server rather than the DNS if the DNS is critical in terms of website functionality, as in when a website changes its server?

Thanks.

townsbg · May 13, 2013

The dns server is essentially a database that takes www.mywebsite.com and associates it with ipaddress 123.255.210 that way the user only has to type in www.mywebsite.com instead of the server's ipaddress. If the server changes more than likely the ipaddress changes so the dns database needs to be updated otherwise the user won't get to the website. That is the simplest way I know of to describe it but it can be much more complicated than that. In reality corporations have large, very complex websites so there are a lot of components involved but that's behind the scene which is for the most part transparent to the user. If you don't know much about it you might get a headache thinking about it. There literally can be hundreds to thousands of servers in a company's infrastructure each with their own specific job. Take Microsoft, it really wouldn't surprise me if they have a few thousand servers in their network. Unless you want to get into server services you really don't want to know much more than that.

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