Can you run a sniffer on either end? That should give you some idea of what's going wrong.
Also - do you have a firewall on your XP box? Linux box? Either could be causing these problems as well. On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 04:51:57PM -0400, Sean Dembrosky babbled thus: > Hello all Hammies... > > > This is a troubleshooting issue that has had me bogged down for a few > days now. Perhaps someone out there can shed some light... > I have a windows XP pro box connected, via a hub, to a linux machine > running rh8.0. the rh box has dhcp, dns and firewall services here at my > tmex tech shop (tmex.org), so I can get any and all new machines up on the > net safely and easily. This win xp box was getting it's DHCP ip real nice > and easy, no problems at all, pinging the 192.168.1.1 linux box no problem, > everything was honkey dorey, until a few days ago. It all seemed to happen > once I updated my McAffee virus program, and then all of a sudden, I > couldn't ssh in via putty as I normally did, said it couldn't find the ip > for 192.168.1.1. DHCP couldn't get an ip with 'ipconfig /release' or > 'ipconfig /renew' (kept giving me auto-IP crap.) Tried assigning a static > IP for the nic in windows, with the dns server pointing to 192.168.1.1, no > luck. Strange thing is, machines on the hub that are pulling ghost images > off this windows box can get to it fine, so the nic is healthy and the link > layer's healthy... seems like the problem resides in the tcp/ip stack... > strange?!?! > > Tried netsh varieties like 'netsh int reset ip' and other things, with > reboot, same issue. Anyone have any ideas of what I should try next to > get this damned xp's tcp stack back up to par? > > Thanks for reading the lengthy problems everyone! > > Sean > > _________________________________________________________________ > STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- Mike Edwards Brainbench certified Master Linux Administrator http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=158188 ----------------------------------- Unsolicited advertisments to this address are not welcome.
