Can't connect to network with windows, but can with linux :s

Lul2x

I am at a loss of ideas of why this may be happening. I cannot think of an even that would have caused this. I just couldn't connect one day while I was on my windows partition.

I tried pinging my router and got "destination host unreachable." It's funny because I can connect fine in linux. I thought maybe I had a virus, so I reformatted my windows partition and re-installed both windows 2000 and Windows XP. Still; no solution.

I pinged my eth (127.0.0.1) and responses are fine. Drivers are installed for the eth adapter the network connection is the same as it used to be. It seems to be sending packets, but not recieving.

If anyone has any ideas or suggestions to help me with this problem, i'd appreciate it. Thank you.
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steveb · Advocate Joined: 18 Sep 2002 Posts: 4564

do you have the internal windows firewall active? if so, disable it. maybe disabling virus scanner (temporary) and other firewall stuff you may have, could help.

cheers

SteveB

Lul2x · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 1:49 am Post subject:

steveb · Advocate Joined: 18 Sep 2002 Posts: 4564

any automatic updates run by the winupdate automatic service?

Lul2x · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 5:11 am Post subject:

i don't think so
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nobspangle · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 11:02 am Post subject:

If you get destination host unreachable, it would suggest that you have a problem with your network setup. Either an incorrect IP address, subnet mask or default gateway.
Check the ouput of
ipconfig /all
and
route print
to make sure everything is OK.

The address of your ethernet adaptor is never 127.0.0.1 this is a different interface used for local loopback, in linux it's called lo.

Make sure that your network cable is showing an acitve link and that it is not disabled.

Lul2x · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 5:15 pm Post subject:

Ok, I have finally gotten it to work. I had to go into the advanced TCP/IP properties and select "Use NetBIOS setting from the DHCP server. I also had to imput my ip information statically. It is really strange that this happened, but I'm glad I've finally gotten it to work. Thanks for the help.

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