That sounds like a funky proxy or proxy entry in the browser to me. Back to SmartFilter ...
...Tim From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 6:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vista, 7, etc method of determining if a network connection has "Internet Access" I have updated the drivers for the NICs on both machines (one Vista, One Win 7 RC) with genuine drivers from Intel (the Vista machine) and Realtek (The Win 7 machine) to no avail. Didn't help a bit. I've changed the power settings so that they never sleep, etc. The only thing that prevents it is to give them static ips and whitelist them from filtering. BTW, what I'm seeing is only applicable to http and https. When the browsers can't access anything on the internet I can open a command prompt and do nslookups, telnet, etc. to outside hosts. From: Clark, Tommy R [mailto:tommy.r.cl...@saic.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vista, 7, etc method of determining if a network connection has "Internet Access" Yes, I know that bad things can happen when you let Windows Update change your drivers. I have not been bothered enough to go get the latest manufacture's drivers. I have installed Windows 7 in another partition and I am slowly migrating over anyway. ________________________________ From: bounce-8670971-8239...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto:bounce-8670971-8239...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of richardmccl...@aspca.org Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vista, 7, etc method of determining if a network connection has "Internet Access" Have you tried going to the NIC manufacturer's site and getting the driver they provide? Bad things have been known to happen when one lets MS Update apply a hardware driver. -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCA(r) 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 www.aspca.org<http://www.aspca.org/> The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals(r) (ASPCA(r)) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. "Clark, Tommy R" <tommy.r.cl...@saic.com> wrote on 09/29/2009 07:30:22 AM: > I have been seeing this behavior on my Vista system at home. I do not > have SmartFilter and have always assumed the problem was an incompatible > network driver. I do not remember having the problem when I first > obtained the laptop. I seem to remember the problem appearing sometime > after I let Windows Update replace my network drivers. I have never > really tried to trace it down. So, if you find the magic bullet, I'd be > interested in hearing. > > -----Original Message----- > From: bounce-8670273-8239...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com > [mailto:bounce-8670273-8239...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of > Richard Stovall > Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 4:18 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Vista, 7, etc method of determining if a network connection has > "Internet Access" > > Does anyone have a good reference that explains exactly how Vista and > newer Microsoft Operating Systems determine whether a particular NIC has > "Internet Access?" I'm talking about the really annoying 'feature' > where the network stack automagically tries to determine whether a > particular NIC has a route to the internet. > > I'm curious b/c our Pix SmartFilter plugin (now owned by McAfee) is > messing with a couple of machines and breaking their ability to actually > get to the internet. If I disable filtering for the machines' ip > addresses there's no problem at all. With filtering enabled they > completely lose their ability to get on the internet when their DHCP > leases renew and you have to disable then re-enable the NICs. > (SmartFilter of course says that there's no way it's related to their > product...) > > TIA, > RS > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
