"Mark Alexander Bertenshaw" wrote in message
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: "Roland Hall" <nobody@nowhere> wrote in message
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: > "Mark Alexander Bertenshaw" wrote in message
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: > : I have recently purchased a Netgear DG834G Wireless ADSL Modem/Router
: > : (192.168.0.1), and have connected my two machines to it. One machine
: > : (BABYLON5) has Win2000 server, and my "normal" machine (AGAMEMNON) has
: > : Win2000 Professional. Unfortunately, the Win2000 Professional machine
: > : cannot ping or HTTP to the router or the server machine.
: > :
: > : I have set AGAMEMNON (which also has a number of dial-up connections,
: but
: > : not active when I tested this) so that it automatically gets an IP
: address
: > : and DNS allocated. And this *appears* to happen - I always get
: > : 192.168.0.4 - and looking at IPCONFIG /ALL, it appears that a DCHP
: server
: > at
: > : 192.168.0.1 has leased it an IP address, and the subnet is correct
: > : (255.255.255.0). Looking at the router setup, it appears that it
: detects
: > : two devices attached to it: the Server machine (as BABYLON5) at
: > 192.168.0.2,
: > : and what must be AGAMEMNON (as UNKNOWN) at 192.168.0.4.
: > :
: > : And it seems that at some level, AGAMEMNON knows about both the router
: and
: > : BABYLON5 - resolving the IP addresses with ARP -a seems gives the
: correct
: > : ethernet addresses. It's just that I can't contact them with ping or
: > HTTP.
: >
: > Tell me about your personal firewall...
: > --
: > Roland Hall
:
: Roland -
:
: I have been using ZoneAlarm, but disabling it in this case made no
: difference.
:
: However, after running netmon, it seemed that the occasional broadcast
: packets got through, and I seemed to be able to recover the MAC addresses
of
: various IP addresses using arp -a <IP adress> . I tried replacing the
: network card when the MAC address looked corrupted (which was probably a
bug
: in netmon). However, what *did* work was to remove the "Deterministic
: Network Enhancer" component from the LAN connection properties. Googling
: "Deterministic Network Enhancer" seemed to indicate a widespread problem
: with this software. I realise now that this must have been installed when
I
: put some Netscreen VPN client software on my machine. I would guess that
: this means that I won't be able to use the VPN software over my Netgear
: router! Whilst this is not massively essential,.I would still like to be
: able to use VPN over the ADSL connection.
The VPN client is to connect to a VPN server. Your router/firewall just has
to support passing the port/service. If you're making a tunnel from
router/router, then that's a different story but here it is from your
client. Depending on what you're connecting to, this software may not even
be needed.
http://www.microsoft.com/serviceprov..._VPN_win2k.asp
--
Roland Hall
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