Using static address with DHCP server

Why do you - in this thread - post a link pointing back to this very thread?

M$ has documentation how to use APIPA for Windows 7. All you need to do is to say that the primary setting should have an IP automatically assigned. Then as alternative configuration you keep the default APIPA setting checked. 30 seconds with Google...

But it is only relevant if you want to create a local island of non-connected machines. So friend A and friend B can connect their two computers together without any DHCP server.

So it might be practical in a tent out in the wilderness. But most people have an existing network with at least a dirt-cheap router - and suddenly do not need APIPA.

So - how have you ended up in a situation where you want your device and your Windows machine to be part of a local networking island? Remember that with APIPA you aren't expected to have a gateway, since the router that supplied that gateway would normally have been able to supply a working DHCP service, negating any need for APIPA.

Why do you - in this thread - post a link pointing back to this very thread?

M$ has documentation how to use APIPA for Windows 7. All you need to do is to say that the primary setting should have an IP automatically assigned. Then as alternative configuration you keep the default APIPA setting checked. 30 seconds with Google...

But it is only relevant if you want to create a local island of non-connected machines. So friend A and friend B can connect their two computers together without any DHCP server.

So it might be practical in a tent out in the wilderness. But most people have an existing network with at least a dirt-cheap router - and suddenly do not need APIPA.

So - how have you ended up in a situation where you want your device and your Windows machine to be part of a local networking island? Remember that with APIPA you aren't expected to have a gateway, since the router that supplied that gateway would normally have been able to supply a working DHCP service, negating any need for APIPA.

Hi Per Westermark,

I need to use Auto IP. as My Windows PC is connected via ethernet directlty to my embedde devuce. No internet, no router . Router is optional.

Just need to specify Windows 7 to enable Auto IP. which I can see is working using ipconfig. but It does not pick Embedded device IP address or via device name.

I enabled DHCP as well.

I do not want to specified any static IP address for device and any other address.

http://www.keil.com/support/man/docs/rlarm/rlarm_tn_cfgeth.htm

It works in DHCP case via router but not in Auto IP mode.

I can't see any mention of version.

Looks like you're doing something wrong. Keil introduced the autoip feature into their stack a few years back. it uses it after a dhcp timeout. At the time, i asked them if it could be disabled and they said it couldn't.

It still works as I saw it work back then.