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New Post output of "ipconfig /all"
"Here at Ortillery Command we have at our disposal hundred megawatt laser beams, mach 20 titanium rods and guided thermonuclear bombs. Some people say we think that we're God. We're not God. We just borrowed his 'SMITE' button for our fire control system."
New Don't have that in front of me now, but . . . .
. . checked it enough times I know exactly what it said for the network card:

DHCP off
IP 192.168.1.44
Mask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
DNS 64.105.132.250
64.105.166.322

Disabled the built in and installed a separate card with address 192.168.1.43 - same result - no answer to ping.

Now here's what I think happened. This machine had Windows XP home on it but was purchased with a Windows XP Pro upgrade installed - which upgrade was not needed but due to the ignorance of people advising the purchaser.

This upgrade was installed with all the pre-installed Norton crap fully enabled, including Norton Personal Firewall. NPF was later de-installed. In my experience, doing any system work with Norton anything installed is a recipe for disaster.

NPF was deinstalled at my recommendation in a phone conversation with the owner as inapropriate for the machines intended use. I was at that time unaware the Windows XP Pro was an upgrade to home (though I did wonder why NPF would be on an XP Pro machine).
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New Just tried
Wife has XP Home --- No answer to ping
Daughter has 2000 -- answers ping
Laptop 2000 - answers ping
Server Linux - answers ping

It may be a XP Home issue.

Good luck
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail ... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
New Speaking of Norton crap
I just spent way too long helping a friend of my wife with her WinXP box. She said it's gotten significantly slower the past couple of months. She's had it a couple of years. (Must have gotten it when XP was still fairly new.)

I followed the directions on the [link|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Know/WinXPLockdown|WinXPLockdown] page, and after downloading everything -- btw next time I download at work and burn a disk, damn but AOL is slow -- I started installing. Norton started popping up every time I ran another scan. Finally got all the rest installed and Norton turned off. The last of the full-system scans was still running when I left, but it still felt really slow -- 15-20 seconds to open a menu the first time, etc.

How do I identify what's making performance suck so much? I already ran all the scans and only found a few things to nuke. Do I just have to go through the process list and google each of them one-by-one to see if they need to be there?
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New Well, Norton will make it slow right there . .
. . since it's resident, and its scans are absolutely glacial, and its "fix" stage often makes no sense at all. This is pure crap marketed up the kazoo and the peasants buy it like it was "moral values". When I put better products on, next time I see the machine it's got Norton back on it. I guess the fact that Norton is expensive makes them feel it's better.
[link|http://www.aaxnet.com|AAx]
New Here's a little problem
64.105.166.322


I know you know that the octets can't be over 255. I know that doesn't answer the ping issue...but still.
--
Steve
New They don't "wrap around" (so 322 would be = 67) ?
New Ooops, type - is .122 - but that part works.
[link|http://www.aaxnet.com|AAx]
New You've probably got the long and the short of it.
Norton == !Scottish.
"Here at Ortillery Command we have at our disposal hundred megawatt laser beams, mach 20 titanium rods and guided thermonuclear bombs. Some people say we think that we're God. We're not God. We just borrowed his 'SMITE' button for our fire control system."
     Windows XP Pro doesn't answer pings even - (Andrew Grygus) - (20)
         Have you tried the arp trick? - (jake123)
         Post output of "ipconfig /all" -NT - (inthane-chan) - (8)
             Don't have that in front of me now, but . . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (7)
                 Just tried - (jbrabeck)
                 Speaking of Norton crap - (drewk) - (1)
                     Well, Norton will make it slow right there . . - (Andrew Grygus)
                 Here's a little problem - (Steve Lowe) - (2)
                     They don't "wrap around" (so 322 would be = 67) ? -NT - (CRConrad)
                     Ooops, type - is .122 - but that part works. -NT - (Andrew Grygus)
                 You've probably got the long and the short of it. - (inthane-chan)
         SP2? - (andread) - (9)
             He specifically stated firewall is disabled. <EOM> -NT - (inthane-chan) - (4)
                 Re: He specifically stated firewall is disabled. <EOM> - (andread) - (3)
                     Nope. - (pwhysall)
                     Well, it claims it isn't running and can't start. - (Andrew Grygus) - (1)
                         No vpn running? - (Silverlock)
             SP2 Yes, but . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (3)
                 Just spent a second night with an HP XP box - (drewk) - (2)
                     Not typical - universal. - (Andrew Grygus) - (1)
                         Is a $50 hardware firewall good enough to stop this? (new thread) - (Another Scott)

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