{"id":765,"date":"2008-07-29T13:05:58","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T12:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/765-vista-network-weirdness.html"},"modified":"2008-07-29T13:05:58","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T12:05:58","slug":"vista-network-weirdness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/765-vista-network-weirdness.html","title":{"rendered":"Vista Network weirdness"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Vista laptop could no longer connect to the Internet, when I plugged it directly into my router (to bypass my ISA firewall, to test some stuff).<\/p>\n

Checked the IP settings, all fine \u2013 except that I had two Default Gateways, one of which was 0.0.0.0, the other of which was correct. Tried fixed IP with hard-coded default gateway, same result.<\/p>\n

Booted into Linux, all fine.<\/p>\n

Studied the Network and Sharing center. I had two<\/strong> active networks. One was called Network 5, the other Unidentified. Both were using the same connection \u2013 Local Area Connection 6.<\/p>\n

Aside: I presume that when I first installed Vista this was Local Area Connection 1. Somehow, over time, Windows decided it should delete it and re-detect it, with a new name, 5 times over.<\/p>\n

That didn\u2019t look right. I noticed that if you click Customize, to the right of a network in the Network and Sharing Center, you get an option to \u201cMerge or delete network locations\u201d. Worth a try. Clicking this option gets you an ugly<\/strike> functional dialog that lets you select a network and, umm, merge or delete it. All the networks I have ever joined in hotels, conferences and hotspots round the world were listed.<\/p>\n

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My first thought was to merge. However, you can\u2019t merge networks that are in use. I disabled the network card (in Manage Network Connections) and tried again. But, \u201cUnidentified\u201d was not listed. Forget that \u2013 I selected the lot and clicked Delete.<\/p>\n

Re-enabled the card, and I\u2019m back on the Internet. One default gateway. All fine.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d be interested to know what went wrong. And the network UI in Vista seems over-complex to me. <\/p>\n

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My Vista laptop could no longer connect to the Internet, when I plugged it directly into my router (to bypass my ISA firewall, to test some stuff). Checked the IP settings, all fine \u2013 except that I had two Default Gateways, one of which was 0.0.0.0, the other of which was correct. Tried fixed IP … Continue reading Vista Network weirdness<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vista","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}