Network Cable Unplugged

[henrikh]

Is there a way to prevent Windows 2000 from detecting that the network cable is unplugged?

I want to be able to send tcp/ip broadcast traffic locally when I am not connected to the network. It works in 98 and NT.

I have experimented briefly with the "Loopback Adapter" but that does not seem to work either.

Any ideas?

/Henrik

[avlanche]

WinME has "Detect Network Media" check box in TCPIP properties. Win2k will not allow you to disable this without hacking the reg.

[mcintyreb]

You can disable "Media Sensing" using Regedt32 to navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Tcpip\Parameters

On the Edit menu, Add Value name DisableDHCPMediaSense, as a REG_DWORD data type. Setting the data value to 1 causes DHCP clients to ignore "Media Sense" events.

You must restart your computer for this change to take effect.

[miltbeebe]

this does not seem to work for static addresses
at least not on a 3c905TX

milt

[miltbeebe]

what do you do for static addressing ?

milt