Group Policy : Turn off
notifications when a connection has only limited or no connectivity
At least Microsoft
Windows XP Professional with SP2
This policy
setting allows you to manage whether notifications are shown to the user when a
DHCP-configured connection is unable to retrieve an IP address from a DHCP
server. This is often signified by the assignment of an automatic private IP
address”(ie an IP address in the range 169.254.*.*). This indicates that a DHCP
server could not be reached or the DHCP server was reached but unable to
respond to the request with a valid IP address. By default, a notification is
displayed providing the user with information on how the problem can be
resolved. If you enable this policy setting, this condition will not be
reported as an error to the user. If you disable or do not configure this
policy setting, a DHCP-configured connection that has not been assigned an IP
address will be reported via a notification, providing the user with
information as to how the problem can be resolved.
USER
Group Policy Path :
Administrative Templates\Network\Network Connections
Group Policy Registry Settings :
hkcu\software\policies\microsoft\windows\network
connections!nc_ipstatechecking
