Key went "Bye-Bye"...?

[Kenneth]

Howdy,

For months, I have been plagued by an odd networking
problem:

If I left my laptop on, but idle, for several hours, it
always lost the ability to browse. It could ping
successfully, but it could not browse properly (it might be
able to browse a machine or two on our 6 node LAN, but it
could never browse Internet.)

When this happened, the error message was that the "network
name was not accessible."

Of course, with that low level of specificity, this was
impossible to diagnose.

Until today...

Today, for some reason, I got a much more useful error
message:

"The Name Limit for the local computer network adapter card
was exceeded."

With that, I quickly found MSKB Article # 319504 and felt
that I was on my way to a solution.

The MS recommendation was that I set the value of a
particular reg key (MaxUserPort) to a particular value
(65534).

Easy enough, I thought, but...

When I navigated to the (probably) offending key, I was
surprised to find it missing.

But, no matter, I thought, because the article offered an
alternative modification. Instead of messing with
MaxUserPort, I could modify the key TcpTimedWaitDelay that
was to be found in the same location.

Well, it too, was missing.

So, I created the missing key for MaxUserPort, and entered
the appropriate value.

Now, my question:

How does this sort of thing happen? That is, why might those
keys not be in place at all?

Sincere thanks for any thoughts,

 

[Dave Patrick]

Generally when the values are not present then some default value is usually
assumed by the operating system.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
|
| Howdy,
|
| For months, I have been plagued by an odd networking
| problem:
|
| If I left my laptop on, but idle, for several hours, it
| always lost the ability to browse. It could ping
| successfully, but it could not browse properly (it might be
| able to browse a machine or two on our 6 node LAN, but it
| could never browse Internet.)
|
| When this happened, the error message was that the "network
| name was not accessible."
|
| Of course, with that low level of specificity, this was
| impossible to diagnose.
|
| Until today...
|
| Today, for some reason, I got a much more useful error
| message:
|
| "The Name Limit for the local computer network adapter card
| was exceeded."
|
| With that, I quickly found MSKB Article # 319504 and felt
| that I was on my way to a solution.
|
| The MS recommendation was that I set the value of a
| particular reg key (MaxUserPort) to a particular value
| (65534).
|
| Easy enough, I thought, but...
|
| When I navigated to the (probably) offending key, I was
| surprised to find it missing.
|
| But, no matter, I thought, because the article offered an
| alternative modification. Instead of messing with
| MaxUserPort, I could modify the key TcpTimedWaitDelay that
| was to be found in the same location.
|
| Well, it too, was missing.
|
| So, I created the missing key for MaxUserPort, and entered
| the appropriate value.
|
| Now, my question:
|
| How does this sort of thing happen? That is, why might those
| keys not be in place at all?
|
| Sincere thanks for any thoughts,
|
| --
| Kenneth
|
| If you email... Please remove the "SPAMLESS."

 

[Kenneth]

Generally when the values are not present then some default value is usually
assumed by the operating system.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

Hi Dave,

To make sure that I understand your comment...

You think that the possibility exists that the key(s) would
not appear even with a fresh Win install?

I ask because in article 319504 they don't even hint that
they might not be there.

Thanks again,

 

[Dave Patrick]

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/regentry/58791.asp

So 5000 is assumed when the value is not present.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/regentry/58811.asp

in this case 240 seconds is assumed when the value is not present.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Hi Dave,
|
| To make sure that I understand your comment...
|
| You think that the possibility exists that the key(s) would
| not appear even with a fresh Win install?
|
| I ask because in article 319504 they don't even hint that
| they might not be there.
|
| Thanks again,
| --
| Kenneth
|
| If you email... Please remove the "SPAMLESS."