Some of you might have had this problem in the past, you know that your network working perfectly yet suddenly its not working and only showing ip address 169.254.X.X where X can be 0 to 255.
This can happen if you use DHCP in your network. What happen is that the computer set as DHCP client will search for DHCP server and when it can't find the server it will automatically assign ip address of 169.254.X.X. This is actually called APIPA (Automatic Private IP Addressing).
In case of Vista, it will search for DHCP server for about 6 seconds and then assign the APIPA, it will continuously search the server afterward - or so they say.
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