Home > Uncategorized > ”Your computer was not assigned an address from the network (by the DHCP Server) for the Network Card with network address XXX. The following error occurred: 0×79. Your computer will continue to try and obtain an address on its own from the network address (DHCP) server.” Message Appears On Windows 7.

”Your computer was not assigned an address from the network (by the DHCP Server) for the Network Card with network address XXX. The following error occurred: 0×79. Your computer will continue to try and obtain an address on its own from the network address (DHCP) server.” Message Appears On Windows 7.

Description

As title says the following message appears:

“ Your computer was not assigned an address from the network (by the DHCP Server) for the Network Card with network address XXX. The following error occurred: 0×79. Your computer will continue to try and obtain an address on its own from the network address (DHCP) server. ”

Solution

It seems that some DHCP servers are having problems with IPv6 implementation on Windows 7 so the solution is to disable it.

1. Press Windows Key + R, type control and press enter.

2. Click on Network and Internet.

3. Click on Network and Sharing Center

4. Change Adapter Settings.

5. Right mouse click on the network adapter and select properties.

6. Uncheck ‘Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6)’  and press Ok.

imageRestart your computer if you don’t want to use ipconfig on a command window. Once you get the IP you can enable the IPv6 protocol but if you are not going to use it, what is the usual leave it this way.

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  1. Thiago Magalhães
    May 3rd, 2010 at 03:08 | #1

    it doesn't work for me (windows server 2008 r2 virtual machine, running under hyper-v host – linux boxes working well with dhcp)

  2. Angel Luis Sanchez Iglesias
    May 3rd, 2010 at 09:16 | #2

    I tested it in a Windows 7 with a Windows 2000 server.

    Sorry it doesn't work for you.

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