Question : Getting a 169 address

Hi,

My network card is getting a 169 address on a known good cable and port.  ipconfig /renew still will not pick up a IP, have reinstalled the NIC driver made no difference.  

Now normally I would say hardware fault and replace the NIC, but in this case I had a look at the status of the NIC, and is sending out about 15,000 packets a min(receivng none), now I am in the process of checking for any bots/spyware etc but I suspect the laptop is clean.   Could a a hardware fault in the network card be causing it to sending all these packets?

If it is not a hardware fault and the machine is clean any ideas what else to have a look at?

Thanks
Gareth

Answer : Getting a 169 address

I have had this type of situation hose pre-switch networks before, a faulty NIC will start beaconing trying to negotiate the rate of transfer or get DHCP or an initial ARP thang to get the ball rolling and not understand the response and send a retransmit that gets another response that it can't understand which causes another retransmit....and on and on and on. A one person braodcast storm, the weather channel will be doing a special next week.

probably faulty hardware, my guess it is the NIC, you could try a different port on the switch/hub but I would try the nic in a different machine to confirm that it is the nic, but you are probably gonna want to just scrap it.

HTH

-t