[MLB-WIRELESS] strange wireless problem with XP Pro

[Daniel Whitehead]

It maybe because the firewall is on, I know I had lan issues when SP2 was 
rolled out here. I think by default that the firewall is turned on, and 
doesnt allow ICMP replies, so that maybe whats causing your laptop to think 
that the connection is closed.


Regards


Daniel Whitehead


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rowan Crowe" <rowan at sensation.net.au>
To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 6:58 PM
Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] strange wireless problem with XP Pro


> I'm trying to get wireless working on a Toshiba Satellite laptop with XP
> Pro/SP2 installed. It sees the AP and associates with it correctly, and I
> can do things like ping (outbound only, it seems). If I try to load a web
> site, it sometimes works but most of the time it stalls.
>
> I did a tcpdump on the wireless interface on the 'nix gateway, and I can
> see that whilst the XP laptop thinks a connection is closed the other end
> is still sending packets. It's like it never sees certain large packets.
>
> A transfer from a local site (the same nix gateway) works better, but it
> still stalls. It's like something is suddenly making the XP laptop deaf,
> and every inbound packet after that point is ignored *for that TCP
> connection only*.  A ping still works so the interface is alive.
>
> This is a strange problem and it's difficult to word... I hope I'm making
> sense, and I hope that someone has experienced this before! Prior to this
> laptop I had myself an old clunker with Win98, an Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card
> and Avaya's proprietary drivers which worked flawlessly... this one has
> wireless built in and the drivers preinstalled.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Cheers.
>
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