LAN icon...

[A]

....stays in its' initial state - "Aquiring Network Address," but, it has
already established a LAN connection, because IE7 and OE6 both work okay,
and never goes to the two tiny solid blue screens, if oyou see what I mean.

....any idea why the LAN icon in Sytem Tray stays with the little teeny golf
ball rolling from side to side ?

TIA

regards, Richard

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was 7/3/2008 8:19 AM, and on a whim, A pounded out on
the keyboard:

...stays in its' initial state - "Aquiring Network Address," but, it has
already established a LAN connection, because IE7 and OE6 both work okay,
and never goes to the two tiny solid blue screens, if oyou see what I mean.

...any idea why the LAN icon in Sytem Tray stays with the little teeny golf
ball rolling from side to side ?

TIA

regards, Richard

Hi Richard,

Sounds like it may be another network device trying to acquire an IP.
Do you have Blue Tooth networking enabled or wireless, or other?

Are you on a network?

Open a command prompt (Start, Run, cmd, click OK) and type ipconfig /all
and copy and paste it into a reply.

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[RJK]

Thanks for your help,
(...am now back on my PC btw),
....this was a young ladies' stand-alone PC - with PCI LAN 10/100 card in it,
....with internet connection problems caused by a heavily "trodden on" 'phone
extension lead (with 2 adsl filters ! - of course I removed one of them),
and swapped out the phone' lead to solve that one.
CMD | IPCONFIG /ALL and NETSTAT -a didn't reveal anything "untowards," ...I
should have posted two log command line outputs while I was there,
(ipconfig /all > c:\data\ipconfig.txt etc. ... is where they were left
on her PC.

....anyhoo, ...I rummaged right through her TalkTalk SmartAX MT882 router and
made a few changes, i.e. switched off some things that I knew were not
needed, left others alone, ...turned off IGMP after trying to find out what
it was with Google - best I could discern was that it's something to do with
"multi-cast ..."streaming" or something like that ! Having IGMP switched
off didn't seem to affect "normal" IE7 surfing.
....Zonalarm free is in there btw...

The "aquiring network address" condition of the LAN icon in system tray does
now go to the "normal blinking" LAN icon after a minute or two, ...and as
everything seems to be working okay, ...I though it best to leave it rather
than continue rummamging and break something.

I didn't understand the two seperate "firewall" type options in this SmartAX
thing, in that there was a "NAT" option, and on a seperate menu branch, "IP
Filter list." According to grc.com | "Shields Up," the adsl modem/router
was advertising "blocked ports" rather than them being, as he describes -
"stealthed," ...and his site claimed that her PC was responding to Ping
requests !!!
....however, an IE7 refresh of that page gave a "Pass," ...a condition I was
able to repeat e.g.
Quit IE7 | clear out TIF and Temp directories | grc - common ports test
produces a list of ports both "open" and blocked, ...refresh that page and I
get a "Pass," ...seeing as these "tests" are conducted on a SSL page, ...I
suspect a little "alarmist," ...lots of this sort of talk about GRC out
there !!

....sorry for my waffling ...thanks.

regards, Richard