Unidentified Network when setting IP address to static - solution!

Finally found a solution to my static IP issue. Whenever I would set my IP to static, the network would become Unidentified. To get the network back to Home I would change to DHCP, then back to static. After waking the computer up from Sleep mode it would go back to Unidentified. Since it didn't prevent me from doing anything I just gave up on it.
Today, on a whim, I re-enabled IPv6 on the Local Area Connection and, instantly, the network was Home again.

TLDNR - enable IPv6 to fix Unidentified Network when using a static IP address

Thanks for reminding us all that disabling IPv6 is not very wise, here is more information about IPv6 and what it does.

The Argument against Disabling IPv6

It is unfortunate that some organizations disable IPv6 on their computers running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, where it is installed and enabled by default. Many disable IPv6-based on the assumption that they are not running any applications or services that use it. Others might disable it because of a misperception that having both IPv4 and IPv6 enabled effectively doubles their DNS and Web traffic. This is not true.
From Microsoft's perspective, IPv6 is a mandatory part of the Windows operating system and it is enabled and included in standard Windows service and application testing during the operating system development process. Because Windows was designed specifically with IPv6 present, Microsoft does not perform any testing to determine the effects of disabling IPv6. If IPv6 is disabled on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, or later versions, some components will not function. Moreover, applications that you might not think are using IPv6—such as Remote Assistance, HomeGroup, DirectAccess, and Windows Mail—could be.
Therefore, Microsoft recommends that you leave IPv6 enabled, even if you do not have an IPv6-enabled network, either native or tunneled. By leaving IPv6 enabled, you do not disable IPv6-only applications and services (for example, HomeGroup in Windows 7 and DirectAccess in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are IPv6-only) and your hosts can take advantage of IPv6-enhanced connectivity.

Read more. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/m....cableguy.aspx

Scratch that. As soon as I restarted, Unidentified Network is back. How hard could it be for MS to allow a static IP on the Home Network?

Windows doesn't have any problems using static IP's far as I know.

If you can post a screen shot of your ipconfig/all here it would be most helpful.

Same Problem

I'm having the same problem here. Did Jaycube ever find a solution?

I have the same issue, as soon as I change the IP to static it goes as Unidentified-Public ; attached the ipconfig /all
I need static IP - private ..
Does anyone have solution?

Help pls?

Sorry to post on an ancient thread, but I am getting the same issue.

Hello,

You have a wrong subnet mask.
. before making your IP into static, try doing an ipconfig /all using DHCP, take note of the subnet mast that will show.
or can you post your ipconfig when it is connected to DHCP. so that we can help you on your configuration.

ShoTTaS said:

You have a wrong subnet mask.

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His subnet mask is fine.

It appears that Hamachi introduces this type of issues. You can try searching for "Hamachi DNS Problems" and see if you can find a solution. You can also try to disable the Hamachi adapter and see if that would fix your issues.


@TrickyDicky, if you are still around, your problem is that your are using IPv6 DNS addresses, but your computer's IPv6 address is link-local, link-local doesn't "go on the internet". Change your DNS IPs to an IPv4 address 10.1.1.1

Yeah I will see if anything is on the web about it. Thank you.

I tried everything I could find on it without success. I later uninstalled hamachi however it still did not work. I will see if I can do anything with what ShoTTas said.

I accidentally made a new thread?

I tried everything I could find on it without success. I later uninstalled hamachi however it still did not work. I will see if I can do anything with what ShoTTas said.

What the hell?

Oh I see. Sorry guys.

Could you describe your problem in more detail? I.e. details about your network, the exact problem, error messages (if any), etc.

Well I get unidentified network access whenever I set my ip to static and I cannot access the internet. If I use windows network diagnostics the problem it is fixed however my ip stays the same as before. The problem according to diagnostics is "DHCP is not enabled for Local Area Connection".

How are you connecting to the internet and how many computers on the network?

I use a modem and 5 computers (2 have not seen use for a very long time) are in my home network.

Bump.