Why is your primary address a self assigned local IP address?

Space Ninja, No idea, that's just the way the IT company originally set the network up. 50+ PCs i'm not going to go around changing them all.
I've just been asked to replace a dead server and walked into this with the local requirements.
I haven't done this in a few years and can't remember if anything needed to be done or it should just work.

Crusher, Have only set a second IP and subnet mask, nothing else.

When I remove the second IP address machine instantly gets internet back and can resolve computer names again.
The only thing I do is via v4 tcpip properties, advanced, add a second IP address and subnet.

So current setup is as follows.
IP 169.254.1.39
mask 255.255.255.0
gateway 169.254.1.2
dns 169.254.1.2

Add IP 10.8.172.151
mask 255.0.0.0

If I remove the second IP everything works fine except I cannot ping etc 10.8.172.133.
Metric is set to auto as I do not have a second gateway, that is how it should be yeah?

yeah you shouldn't have a network running on 169.254.x.x

why not just add a route on the default gateway so you can access the 10.8.172.x network from the machine?
that assumes you have access to that router, but it'd be heaps easier

if you're just connecting to a single machine why is you mask so big on the second ip?

Did this work before? Do other machines on the network have similar configurations?

I have setup dual IPS on the one NIC before but something doesn't feel right to me here about your setup. I don't know enough about networking to really be able to provide the exact cause here.

Try adding a gateway on the secondary IP and see what that does. Point it at the third party machine.

If that doesnt work consider looking on microsoft technet. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/149399

Edit : Is the primary IP set to Dynamic or static, ???

I doubt you have a DHCP server assigning 169 addresses.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/438733

I work for a Point of sale company

set the ip to 192.168.20.88 with gateway & DNS primary as either 192.168.20.100, 192.168.20.254 or 192.168.20.1.

if that doesn't work, try the 192.168.0.x range, the 192.168.1.x range then 10.0.0.x range.

also try ipconfig /release, ipconfig /renew in command prompt?

Hi Stinky :)
On this machine I have set everything manually.
this is one physical network but I need to connect to they 10.8.172.133 machine as well.

I can't change the ip ranges, if I could I wouldn't have a problem. It is not my network, this setup worked before but i'm not sure how. maybe they put something in the hosts file or what was done with the dual network cards, they we're bridged but when I bridge them the ip

I gave up and added a second nic :(

Check the metric on the 10/8 one. 169 is generally used to indicate 'not connected', so bets are it's seen that 10/8 is available, therefore it should use that to route to the if with 169.254/16

Why don't you add a static route I think that might resolve it

edit: maxgaming lol wildcat

haha Tiny you got it, it is the max gaming loyalty controller, I work for Future who did you work for?

I worked for Worldsmart future(worldsmart retech) in 2008 for about 8 months but after that i went and worked at tatts group for 3 years. We provided support for the max gaming QLD network and its operations.

The best way I always found to fix the problem you are having.... is to set up a reserved IP for the machine and the manually configure the main IP/subnet/gateway. Then add in the secondary IP. At least thats how I always solved this problem for people.