Internet Gateway won't Enable

[Mike Westerhold]

For no apparent reason the Internet Gateway on both my
laptop and desktop came up disabled yesterday. When I try
to enable, a box pops up showing "Connecting",
then "Connected" but the gateway is still disabled.

I am able to ping the other machines on my network,
release/renew, and have hard booted my network. I am
running 1 wired and 1 wireless machine to linksys router,
with WAN uplink to cable modem.

This started 4 days after installing SP2.

I would greatly appreciate any help the community can
provide!

Thanks,
Mike Westerhold

 

[Quaoar]

For no apparent reason the Internet Gateway on both my
laptop and desktop came up disabled yesterday. When I try
to enable, a box pops up showing "Connecting",
then "Connected" but the gateway is still disabled.

I am able to ping the other machines on my network,
release/renew, and have hard booted my network. I am
running 1 wired and 1 wireless machine to linksys router,
with WAN uplink to cable modem.

This started 4 days after installing SP2.

I would greatly appreciate any help the community can
provide!

Thanks,
Mike Westerhold

Enable the Internet Firewall and Internet Connection Sharing Service.
You might have disabled this if you also disabled the Windows Firewall
and have no shared connection. Also, enable the Security Center Service
if you disabled that, and the first did not bring your network alive.

FWIW, the Internet Connection on every SP2 I have set eyes on is
disabled. All of these SP2s have networking functional in every way.
This is an artifact, possibly, of having no active shared internet
connection.

If you have no internet connectivity, Open the TCP/IP properties of the
connecton, navigate to TCP/IP filtering properties, Enable filtering,
change Permit Only to Permit All in all three ports/protocols. Since
you can ping, this is likely not an issue but is worth checking.

Q