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342674	2005-04-08 03:24:00	This PC is kind of weird. In network connections is: Local area network 2. No 1. Where does 1 go? It also has a gateway. There are no details for it and it is not removable - where would this have come from? Ipconfig /release won't work. It said something along the lines of No permissible adapters found or soemthing, I forget the exact wording. Eventually I got it to release and renew in the end but doing an ipconfig shows two ip adresses, one normal, 192.168.1.2 and one that shows something more like a mac address (but isn't). It also shows another Tunnel something, like a VPN connection. Nothing like this has been set up on this PC - is it related to the mysterious gateway icon? One other thing I noted, in LAN properties was the normal TCP/IP but also another one MS TCP/IP v6. Couldn't remove it. How did all this happen? According to the owner she had not done it.	pctek (84)
342675	2005-04-08 03:43:00	The second IP address which "looks like a MAC address" is an IP version 6 address. The version 4 IP addresses use "dotted quad" decimal notation by byte. IP6 uses hexadecimal digits to keep the length down a bit. 128 bits would look like "101.101.103.104.105.106.107.108.109.110.111.112.11 3.114.115.116" in the old format. You need only 16 hex digits to represent it. This may have happened with an (automatic download?) upgrade of the TCP/IP software. I noticed that my last Linux installation gave me IP v6.	Graham L (2)
342676	2005-04-08 04:02:00	The second IP address which "looks like a MAC address" is an IP version 6 address . The version 4 IP addresses use "dotted quad" decimal notation by byte . IP6 uses hexadecimal digits to keep the length down a bit . 128 bits would look like "101 . 101 . 103 . 104 . 105 . 106 . 107 . 108 . 109 . 110 . 111 . 112 . 11 3 . 114 . 115 . 116" in the old format . You need only 16 hex digits to represent it . This may have happened with an (automatic download?) upgrade of the TCP/IP software . I noticed that my last Linux installation gave me IP v6 . Right . But what about the Gateway in network connections? And what happened to LAN connection 1 as it only showed LAN2 . And why would that prevent her interent working anyway? She reinstalled windows in the ned but it bugs me now .	pctek (84)
342677	2005-04-08 04:15:00	Good questions, indeed. ;) Doubtless someone has programmed code to do things which "seem like a good idea at the time". And to do it automagically, to save the users the trouble of doing it themselves. :( I have always preferred to tell computers what to do explicitly. Not to have the computer do it itself, then not tell me.	Graham L (2)
342678	2005-04-08 08:52:00	What I really would like to know is: Why LAN2 is there when there is only the one LAN connection. Even after removing it, it wants to be 2. What/where/how the gateway icon.....	pctek (84)
342679	2005-04-08 11:01:00	Is this true, in Network Connections you have three icons, one called Lan1, one called Lan2 and one called bridge. How many Lan ports does your motherboard have 1 or 2? Does your motherboard have onboard Firewire?	Rob99 (151)
342680	2005-04-08 21:29:00	Is this true, in Network Connections you have three icons, one called Lan1, one called Lan2 and one called bridge. How many Lan ports does your motherboard have 1 or 2? Does your motherboard have onboard Firewire? No Two icons. LAN2 Internet Connection (titled Gateway), not bridge. It has 1 lan port. No firewire.	pctek (84)
342681	2005-04-09 07:50:00	What I really would like to know is: Why LAN2 is there when there is only the one LAN connection. Even after removing it, it wants to be 2. What/where/how the gateway icon..... no - one knows huh.......	pctek (84)
342682	2005-04-09 15:59:00	Good questions, indeed. ;) Doubtless someone has programmed code to do things which "seem like a good idea at the time". And to do it automagically, to save the users the trouble of doing it themselves. :( I have always preferred to tell computers what to do explicitly. Not to have the computer do it itself, then not tell me. That is a major difference between Linux and Windows. Within Windows2000 if the external modem is not turned on when I start it it is not recognised where as Linux does what it is told to do.	mikebartnz (21)
342683	2005-04-10 01:04:00	It's because Windows remembers crap like an elephant. Lan 1 will be assigned to some long lost old driver version, or a different NIC that was in the box. Common as problem. Hope you're not charging them for this.	ninja (1671)
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