[ILUG] Windows XP and VLANs?

Adrian Wooster adrian.wooster at iolfree.ie
Wed Jul 10 11:28:43 IST 2002


Unfortunately, neither ipchains and iptables are running.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Reilly [mailto:jr at inconspicuous.org]
Sent: 10 July 2002 11:17
To: Adrian Wooster; Irish Linux Users' Group
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Windows XP and VLANs?



Sounds like it may be ipchains or iptables.  (probably ipchains)

try
service ipchains stop; service iptables stop; chkconfig iptables off ;
chkconfig ipchains off



> Having given up trying the MS route, could anyone help me with this
oddity?
>
> I have the simplest of networks - 1 XP laptop, and 1 Redhat 7.1 PC with
> either a cross-over cable or **dumb** hub between.
>     - Addressing, etc. is correct
>     - Network cables, etc all checked
>
> The problem:
> tcpdump on Redhat sees traffic from both machines, but the Redhat machine
> never responds to requests from the XP machine.
> The XP machine responds to requests from the Redhat machine - tcpdumps
sees
> it, but ping, telnet, etc ignore it.
>
> The only oddity I can see is that the packets from XP all claim they are
in
> 801.1Q VLAN#0. There is no reference to VLAN's anywhere I've found on MS.
>
> I'd love to get rid of MS altogether but unfortunately its a prototype for
a
> commercial project where MS clients are unavoidable.






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