Installing Oracle on a machine with DHCP

During Oracle installation on a windows machine that is configured to use DHCP in order to obtain its IP address, the Following message will probably be displayed:

Checking Network Configuration requirements …
Check complete. The overall result of this check is: Failed <<<<
Problem: The install has detected that the primary IP address of the system is DHCP-assigned.
Recommendation: Oracle supports installations on systems with DHCP-assigned IP addresses; However, before you can do this, you must configure the Microsoft LoopBack Adapter to be the primary network adapter on the system. See the Installation Guide for more details on installing the software on systems configured with DHCP.

As the error message say, this due to the fact that you are trying to install Oracle on a machine that is using DHCP to obtain its IP address. You can still install oracle on a machine without a constant IP address. All you need to do is configure the LoopBack adapter:

Install the Loopback adapter
1)    Go to the control panel and choose add hardware
2)    The Add Hardware wizard will be displayed, click Next
3)    Choose “Yes, I have already connected the hardware” and click Next
4)    An hardware list will be displayed. Navigate to the bottom of the list and choose “Add new hardware       device”
5)    Choose Install the hardware that I manually select from a list (Advance)”
6)    Choose “Network adapter”
7)    Choose “Microsoft” on the left side of the window and “Microsoft Loopback Adapter” on the right             window”
8)    Click Next and verify that Microsoft Loopback Adapter is about to install and click next again and       finish.

Configure the loop back adapter
1)    Go to control panel – network connections, you will see a new network connection.
2)    Choose “local area connection 2” (the name may vary but basically it is the one we just added) and       click properties.
3)    Click on tcp/ip and then properties.
4)    Enter an IP address and a subnet mask (you can use 1.1.1.2 and subnet 255.255.255.0)

Go to network connection and click on Advanced settings under the Advanced menu and verify that the loopback adapter is in the first one. (Update: it look like this step is optional because it seems to work in most cases anyway)

Now you can continue your oracle installation.

22 thoughts on “Installing Oracle on a machine with DHCP”

BAALU June 21, 2009 at 4:43 pm

Super Explanantion

admin Post authorJune 21, 2009 at 9:39 pm

Thanks.

Lindseylot February 12, 2010 at 8:38 pm

Thanks! Although on the Configure the loop back adapter part it is slightly different on the 1st step ‘coz its: Control Panel – Network Connections. 🙂 Not really a big deal… Thanks again!

admin Post authorFebruary 12, 2010 at 10:07 pm

You are right. While it may not be a big deal, I like it to be accurate as possible. Fixed.
Thanks

whit February 12, 2010 at 11:22 pm

1st off I’m on windows 7 and thus have a problem installing 11g normally. So used run programs like previous program which is vista. Everything comes back find besides the DHCP failure. Tried install guide and your suggestions but still receiving the same result.

miki February 23, 2010 at 12:02 pm

Great explanation. This solution, especially the ending part regarding network configurations, worked when others I found did not.

admin Post authorFebruary 23, 2010 at 12:50 pm

Thanks, glad it helped.

Scott July 19, 2010 at 7:31 am

Please explain further:
“Go to network connection advanced and verify that the loopback adapter is in the first one.” Thanks!

admin Post authorJuly 19, 2010 at 9:15 am

@Scot, if you go to the control panel, chose Network Connection and click on the Advanced menu item. you will get to the Adapters and Bridges tab. The connection you just created for the loop back adapter should be on top.
Thinking about it, I don’t remember a case that this wasn’t the case so maybe this step is optional.

DEEPAKHS July 30, 2010 at 6:44 am

Thanky you for this simplest thing I have searched the entire Oracle manuall unnecessarily. My rating is first for this website

admin Post authorJuly 30, 2010 at 7:10 am

Thank you for taking the time to comment.

Anthony September 2, 2010 at 12:56 am

Thanks for these life saving instructions.

But I could not understand
“Go to network connection advanced and verify that the loopback adapter is in the first one.”

There are many advanced dialogs, none of which has an order that I could find (XP)

It seemed to work anyway.

admin Post authorSeptember 2, 2010 at 7:07 am

Thanks for your comment Anthony,
This is Advance -> Advanced Setting – Adapters and Bridges tab. I just fixed this.
Anyway, it looks like this step is optional because it seems to work anyway.

Nikhil Mehta January 10, 2011 at 8:43 am

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ZeeMan May 30, 2011 at 8:20 pm

Great. This article helped me remove the warning that OI had on detecting DHCP. Thanks.

Mark Hampson September 8, 2011 at 3:06 pm

Thank you very much. This saved me time and frustration.

Asm September 25, 2011 at 3:39 pm

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Rms January 6, 2012 at 9:06 am

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