Re: [WISPA] OT......Question

[Brian Rohrbacher]

Scott Lambert wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 08:21:37AM -0800, Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote: Here's an example from yesterday. My new laptop is Vista (the old one has a concrete floor induced broken screen). There is a device somewhere on my network that is answering arp requests incorrectly. No matter what IP addy I put on the Vista machine (or osx for that matter) it shows an IP address conflict and resorts to a 169.x.x.x IP addy. Any OS other than osx or Vista (both MS products these days) works just fine. So I have a brand new laptop that won't work here and I'm gonna have to waste who knows how much time tracing down a device, and spend money replacing it, that is otherwise working just fine. As much as I dislike Windows, you can't really blame that issue on Windows. You have to blame that one on the bogus hardware which is breaking arp... I had that issue one time, but I was lucky enough to have a sub with a MAC to help me fix it.  Everytime he put his mac online it gave an ip conflict no matter what IP was used.  The good thing about the mac was it gave the mac addy of the device that was the conflict.  When I plugged my IBM laptop in everything was fine, no ip conflict.  Anyway, I looked up the mac addy and went to the customer.  Even though it showed the mac addy of the antenna, it was a $5 gigafast switch that was the problem.  I dropped it in the trash, installed a 3com and was good to go.  So, go borrow a MAC and it will help you fix this. Brian like Quicken these days. I'd pay MORE for a program that just balanced my checkbook and gave me some nice reports. I'm sick and tired of everyone trying to force services and other crap down my throat. http://moneydance.com/

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