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This one is for the books. In short, my Linksys Router died on my home
network. I had 2 PC's connected to the Router both running XP Pro. One is
my machine and the other was my kids. My machine was running Norton Internet
Security 2005 and until that point, everything was working just fine.
Now, once the Linksys died, it ended up acting like a passthru. What that
meant was that only 1 computer could get an IP address. Once I figured this
out, I turned my kids machine off and my machine then got the REAL IP
Address. Well, what that did, was cause Norton to think I was a laptop, and
it thru up a message asking me where I was (I guess it thought I was a
laptop). Well, since I hadn't yet figured out what had happened, and the
question it asked me wasn't clear - I don';t know what I answered.
Now to the interesting part. A few days later, I added a Smoothwall
firewall to my networ and a hub. Works just fine - However, my machine
starts acting "funny". I noticed the problem, because now my PC starts
losing its IP Connection - It still has an IP address, but I cant do anything
- The browser can't find anything, I can't ping. I need to go out and do a
IPCONFIG /RELEASE and then RENEW - fixes the problem.
Well, this went on for a week - I thought it might be the hardware, but I
tested that. I started uninstalling things (Like Norton Internet Security).
The problem doesn't seem to happen AS frequently, but I can make it happen by
doing the following
1. I go to www.realtor.com
2. I click on register
POOF, my connection dies. I get 2 event messages which are 1) a DHCP
Warning (I think an 8003) and then I get the informational Election Browser
message. My belief is both of those messages are REACTIVE, rather than
pointing to the problem.
For reference, I even tried deleting my Winsock registry entries and
reinstalling them - but that didn't work either
I have just posted a message with Symantec, but I thought I would try here
as well. I have always kept up to date with my 3 spyware programs, I have
all of the Microsoft fixpacks and until a few days ago I had my Norton
Antivirus definitions up to date.
What I would like to do next, is try a reinstall of IE - Perhaps
deinstalling and reinstalling SP/2 is another idea, but can I uninstall SP/2
even though I have installed a number of updates since then ?
network. I had 2 PC's connected to the Router both running XP Pro. One is
my machine and the other was my kids. My machine was running Norton Internet
Security 2005 and until that point, everything was working just fine.
Now, once the Linksys died, it ended up acting like a passthru. What that
meant was that only 1 computer could get an IP address. Once I figured this
out, I turned my kids machine off and my machine then got the REAL IP
Address. Well, what that did, was cause Norton to think I was a laptop, and
it thru up a message asking me where I was (I guess it thought I was a
laptop). Well, since I hadn't yet figured out what had happened, and the
question it asked me wasn't clear - I don';t know what I answered.
Now to the interesting part. A few days later, I added a Smoothwall
firewall to my networ and a hub. Works just fine - However, my machine
starts acting "funny". I noticed the problem, because now my PC starts
losing its IP Connection - It still has an IP address, but I cant do anything
- The browser can't find anything, I can't ping. I need to go out and do a
IPCONFIG /RELEASE and then RENEW - fixes the problem.
Well, this went on for a week - I thought it might be the hardware, but I
tested that. I started uninstalling things (Like Norton Internet Security).
The problem doesn't seem to happen AS frequently, but I can make it happen by
doing the following
1. I go to www.realtor.com
2. I click on register
POOF, my connection dies. I get 2 event messages which are 1) a DHCP
Warning (I think an 8003) and then I get the informational Election Browser
message. My belief is both of those messages are REACTIVE, rather than
pointing to the problem.
For reference, I even tried deleting my Winsock registry entries and
reinstalling them - but that didn't work either
I have just posted a message with Symantec, but I thought I would try here
as well. I have always kept up to date with my 3 spyware programs, I have
all of the Microsoft fixpacks and until a few days ago I had my Norton
Antivirus definitions up to date.
What I would like to do next, is try a reinstall of IE - Perhaps
deinstalling and reinstalling SP/2 is another idea, but can I uninstall SP/2
even though I have installed a number of updates since then ?