ipconfig /release not working, why?

ipconfig /release is not working, why is that?

here is a sequence where I put my cable in get an IP, try ipconfig /release and it tells me it can't release wireless, but there is no wireless connection. i'm just trying to release the wired one.

unplug cable

 C:\>ipconfig
Windows IP Configuration
Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

Fine so I plug my cable in

C:\>ipconfig
Windows IP Configuration
Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
C:\>ipconfig
Windows IP Configuration
Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.8 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254

Fine so from above, it clearly has an IP. the above is normal.

C:\>ipconfig /release
Windows IP Configuration
No operation can be performed on Wireless Network Connection while it has its me
dia disconnected.
C:\>

the following doesn't matter much, but I no doubt meant to also say, that after , doing ipconfig /release, ipconfig showed the LAN still has an IP. but I and everybody assumed that from the title- correctly.

so, ipconfig /release didn't work on the LAN.

and for those that don't bother to read the comments, the ultimate answer/reason, was that it was a static ip and that's why ipconfig /release didn't work on the LAN.

2 Answers

Normally without a specific adapter being listed, ipconfig is supposed to work on all the adapters. Obviously yours is not in this case. Try focusing ipconfig on the local area connection adapter instead:

ipconfig /release local*

It's pretty simple, really. Goto msconfig, and start you services back to default. Restart computer. open Command Prompt as Admin.

--netstat -ano

Put that data in your short term memory bank for a minute

--ipconfig /release
--Ipconfig /renew
--ipconfig /flushdns
exit

Goto network properties and recheck the boxes you may have unchecked prior to knowing what you were doing, maybe.