How many times do you hear that? Or have clients phone you up and say "my internet is broken because I can’t get to X website".
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OK thankfully managed to sort out work laptop by doing the following:
1 .Start –> run –> regedit.exe
2. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
\Interfaces\{GUID}
3. {GUID} sub-key refers to the network adapter that is having the issue. In my case my Intel Pro 2200BG card.
4. Add a new DWORD (32bit) value and rename it to “DhcpConnDisableBcastFlagToggle”.
5. Modify the “DhcpConnDisableBcastFlagToggle” key and change the value to “1″.
6. Modify the “DhcpConnForceBroadcastFlag” key and change the value to “0″.
7. Reboot and test the connection again with DHCP.
Sorted!
NB: There is a MS KB article at - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233/en-us. However I believe this article is wrong slightly as it mentions the key “DhcpConnEnableBcastFlagToggle” where it should read DhcpConnDisableBcastFlagToggle
Most stuff on Linx has an NDA but this is pretty major apparently (a drop in traffic of 100 gig/sec..)
Dear Customer,
We are monitoring an event at the London Internert Exchange (LINX) which experienced a network event that affected a large number of network operators exchanging traffic there. We detected some odd packet loss from 18:35 onwards which may have been related. After 19:00 there was a significant event which appears to have resulted in a drop of traffic of over 100Gbps.
Along with many network operators, we have disconnected from the affected LINX peering LAN until the situation is rectified. There may still be issues on some routes as other networks may still be using that LAN whilst the issues continue. Please feel free to contact us if you have specific problems you would like us to look into.
There have been some on-going issues at LINX in the past few weeks. We are confident that the appropriate resources are being put in both at LINX and vendor level to rectify this on what is usually a very stable network. We continue to peer on the other LINX network as well as LONAP and our international transit links are not directly affected, although any routes still flowing through this LINX LAN could still suffer from issues if the other endpoint or their providers have not taken similar action to us.
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us on support@ncuk.com
Regards,
NetConnex NOC”
Oops!
After constant blue screening when trying to open VPN connections, the networking on my tablet (Toshiba Portege M400)is now also pretty broken. Running a system restore to last week has done nothing..
I can’t pickup a DHCP lease on the onboard network card (I’ve tried connecting to two different LAN’s so its not them and other connected PCs are fine). Setting a static IP works fine, what’s going on, grr.
I got an email inviting me to join the Windows Live Mesh beta program, this looks quite interesting. I am sensing this kind of cool toy is what Microsoft are trying to get into with their move towards "software and services" rather than just software..
It looks funky but I am yet to play around with it and see the benefits, more on that soon hopefully!
My laptop just blue-screened twice in Vista, when trying to open a VPN connection. Microsoft usefully gave me this explanation as to why.. “it blue screened” - gee thanks!
This is a test post from using Windows Live Writer..
This is yet another first post on Wordpress whilst I play around with things. Although I have finally uploaded some photos to my Flickr aswell.
What next? I hear that Twitter is the latest Web 2.0 craze?
My problem is that I have so many “web 2″ accounts in so many places that I am losing track on when to check what and what to post where. I’m expecting some internet geek to come up with the ultimate tool and make their internet millions to solve this very issue shortly however, get your thinking caps on.