From: Jeff Shultz 

Gregg Nemesure wrote:

> I wrote software that allows me to assign an IP address to a network
> adapter. I want to use this to allow two machines to boot and have only one
> of them assume a particular address. The program requires TCP be bound to
> the adapter.
>
> Is it possible to have Windows XP boot with no IP address assigned to the
> adapter? The Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties dialog does not let me
> leave the IP address blank.
>
I suppose you could tell it to use DHCP. Or disable the adapter in Network
Connection Properties.

I suspect that it'll try to give itself one of those 169.x addresses if it
doesn't find any others.

Meanwhile, it sounds a bit like you've reinvented the wheel - if you want
to tie a specific address to a specific machine, you can either give it
that address as a static one (which apparently you don't want) or configure
DHCP to hand out that address only to the MAC address of the adapter.

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