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Now let's actually go out and do some alternate configuration in TCP IP and, by the way, you'll also get another reminder on how to configure TCP IP manually. So what we'll do is go out to our Network connections and again there are a lot of ways to get there. I'm just going to click on the Start Menu, go to network, right-click and go to Properties and then I will go to Manage Network Connections, then I will see my Local Area Connection, I will right-click on that and go to Properties and you will see that there I can see my TCP IP version 4 settings and then if I go to Properties in there I am finally now, step 46, I am at my IPv4 Properties box. Now we've already been here before in the course; this is where, on this General tab, where we would set up to use DHCP, obtain an IP address automatically and we can either obtain the server address automatically or put a server address in and we can have the preferred and then the one that it hits if it can't reach that one. Now there's an Advanced tab here that we can continue to go add other things into. We can add other Default gateways and we can go add some more information on DNS. Notice we can keep adding as many DNS servers in the order that we want them to hit them. We can, down here, for unqualified names, we can append primary and connection specific DNS suffixes, we can do all kinds of stuff with these things and I don't want to go into all this right now, but you can go out here and kind of play with this. Just get used to this and then WINS, if we're using WINS, the Windows Internet Naming Service, then we can put those servers in here as well and notice we can set our Net BIOS settings, or whether or not we want to use that WIN server and we can turn that on or turn it off. OK, now, that's all part of the standard TCP IP setup. Now as long as we don't have a static address, as long as we're on Obtain IP address automatically, we can go to this Alternate Configuration that if we fail back here - let me Cancel this and go back - on this General, this is what the computer's going to try to do first time. Notice that if we give it a static IP address the Alternate went away up here, you don't see it anymore, but if I tell it that I will obtain one automatically it's going to try to contact DHCP server. Now if it fails normally it gives it that IPIPA, 169.254 address, right? The Local Subnet Automatic Addressing. But we can go to Alternative, or Alternate Configuration - I keep wanting to call that Alternative - and I can put in say a static IP address that I would like and notice this will give it that automatic private IP address or I can say, no, no, no, no, no, do this. Put it on 16.53.26.42 and then I can put Subnet Mask, Default gateway, my DNS servers and my WIN servers. So when the machine comes up it will either get the stuff off DHCP. If that fails for any reason it will get this Alternate Configuration and it will pop in here, OK? Now, make sure you know about that; you will hear about it on the exam because in some instances you may have a machine that's not getting everywhere it needs to get to, but it looks like it has an IP address, it's not a 169.254 you need to make sure that it doesn't have an Alternate Configuration or you may have a situation where sometimes they might be able to hit their DHCP server and you want to give them an Alternate Configuration to go instead. This is how you do it. So that's Alternate Configuration. I just wanted to let you know how to get in there, how to set that; you could see this guy on the exam, so again, just kind of go out there and play with it, get used to the settings and so forth and now that you understand what it is you should be able to get through these types of questions on the exam.