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82579LM - Windows 8 issue with ProSet and vlans with static addresses

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I am testing Windows 8 Enterprise 64 on an Intel DQ67SW motherboard. It has an 82579LM network card which I've installed with the newer ProSet 17.4 for Windows 8 (64bit) (also tried 17.3 with same results). Here is my problem : If I add a tagged VLAN and I set it with a static IPv4 address, the network card accepts it but keeps the "autoconfiguration IPv4 Address" (169.254.171.226) also and marks it has . Hence the network card is useless and routes aren't being set properly.

ipconfig /all :

Ethernet adapter Ethernet 2:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection - VLAN : VLAN1000

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-22-4D-6B-59-C5

DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::75e5:55c9:c10e:abe2%26(Preferred)

IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.10.5(Duplicate)

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0

Autoconfiguration IPv4 Address. . : 169.254.171.226(Preferred)

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 436216397

DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-18-36-4E-E6-00-22-4D-6B-59-C5

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : fec0:0:0:ffff::1%1

fec0:0:0:ffff::2%1

fec0:0:0:ffff::3%1

NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

Tunnel adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0

DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Tunnel adapter isatap.{CAAE7C0F-9462-45E9-9266-2E79108C7F24}:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter # 3

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0

DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

any help? I've used ProSet drivers since forever on all past windows OS and that same problem never occured... so I guess it's a case of immature drivers?

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idata
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Alright so this all was a HUGE code 18 on my part.

I am building my "new" PC at work alongside my working one... and like an idiot I set up the same static IP on both! When I reverted to installing Windows 7 it popped-up an IP address conflit message which Windows 8 never popped!

So I went back to Windows 8 making sure to have different IPs and all is well.

No bug in the drivers, simply bad handling on my part.

thanks for the help Mark H.!

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Mark_H_Intel
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Hi Alex,

I have seen instances in earlier versions of Windows where the Windows network connection interface took awhile to initialize, and if you configure a static IP before the interface completed initialization, the static IP address failed. I think this might be what happened to you.

Try this:

  1. Remove the VLAN.
  2. Wait 60 seconds
  3. Create a VLAN using the VLAN tab.
  4. Do something else for a few minutes. A few minutes is probably longer than needed, but I don't know how to tell when it is safe to assign the static IP address.
  5. Assign a static IP address to the VLAN interface.

I hope this helps.

Mark H

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idata
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Alright so this all was a HUGE code 18 on my part.

I am building my "new" PC at work alongside my working one... and like an idiot I set up the same static IP on both! When I reverted to installing Windows 7 it popped-up an IP address conflit message which Windows 8 never popped!

So I went back to Windows 8 making sure to have different IPs and all is well.

No bug in the drivers, simply bad handling on my part.

thanks for the help Mark H.!

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Mark_H_Intel
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I have to try to remember this symptom. Maybe Windows 8 calls an IP conflict a "duplicate." I hadn't thought of that when you shared the ipconfig information. Maybe Windows 8 is trying to be helpful by assigning an automatic address instead of warning of an IP conflict. I will watch for that situation in the future.

I am glad your issue is resolved. Have a great day.

Mark H

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idata
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that would indeed make sense! Still they could've kept the useful pop-up to let us know that we just did something wrong on the network.

have a good one!

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