Get a DSL/Cable Router such as the Linksys BEFSR41. It, not the PC, will perform the PPPoE
connection. There are *many* other benefits as well which include, but not limited, a
simplistid FireWall and a 4 port 10/100Mb/s Ethernet switch that will allow you to share the
one Verizon WAN address with upto 253 LAN nodes.
Once you have the Router, you will not have to have *any* Verizon software on the PC which
menas no WinPOET ! Once you execute NukePoet, your problems with IPCONFIG will most likely
go away.
In addition:
If you post to UseNet with your TRUE, not a munged, email address then you have invited the
Swen Internet worm [aka; W32/Gibe-F] to visit you.
The Swen is news spelled backwards. The reason it is called this is because the Swen worm
harvests email addresses from UseNet News Groups. It has an engine that allows it to post
itself to UseNet News Groups as well as it has its own email engine. From the list of
email addresses that it has harvested, it will then email itself to those addresses.
Dave
| IPCONFIG.EXE Ordinal not found The ordinal 1001 coould not be located in the dynamic link
library WSOCK32.dll. I am not clear why I can no longer run ipconfig.exe. The Ethernet is
built into the motherboard and no reconfiguration was done when the router was reconfigured
to PPPoE. Even without being able to run ipconfig I can usually connect to the Internet with
this machine although I am have alot of difficulty conneting with the other machines on the
network.
| Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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