I have a Windows XP Professional SP2 laptop that is DHCP enabled.

Per the recommendation of Oracle I installed a loopback adapter on my laptop
in order for Oracle 10g personal database to work fine even when I am not
connected to the network.

Its IP address is 10.10.10.10 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0.

My software works fine but now it takes an extremely long time for my
computer to power up.

I have the following warning message from the Event Viewer.
"
Your computer was not able to renew its address from the network (from the
DHCP Server) for the Network Card with network address 0015001BBE0D. The
following error occurred:
The semaphore timeout period has expired. . Your computer will continue to
try and obtain an address on its own from the network address (DHCP) server.
"

Regards
Naveen

On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 09:16:30 -0800, Naveen <Naveen@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

Naveen,

The "semaphore timeout period has expired" is a symptom of LSP / Winsock
corruption.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/problems-with-lsp-winsock-layer-in.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/0...-layer-in.html

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