Sunday, February 22, 2009

Repair Option on a Local Area Network or High-Speed Internet Connection-Windows Xp Tips and Tricks-Windows Xp Tips and Tricks

Repair Option on a Local Area Network or High-Speed Internet Connection

In the latest versions of Windows, you are given a repair option when you right-click a network connection in the Network Connections window. Below, you will find exactly what Windows does, in order, when you tell it to repair a network connection: 

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) lease is renewed (ipconfig /renew) 
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) cache is flushed (arp -d *) 
Reload of the NetBIOS name cache (nbtstat -R) 
NetBIOS name update is sent (nbtstat -RR) 
Domain Name System (DNS) cache is flushed (ipconfig /flushdns) 
DNS name registration (ipconfig /registerdns) 
IEEE 802.1X Authentication Restart (WinXP SP1 or later)

Note: The bit in parenthesis is the actual command that is issued, which you can perform yourself from a command prompt.

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