Re: [hylafax-users] Win2k weirdness

[Danilo Godec <danci@agenda.si>]

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

> > In my investigation (using a packet sniffer) I have found out, that WHFC
> > somehow sends a wrong IP in it's PORT command instead of the correct one
> > (WHFC sends 169.254.83.200 while the correct one is completely different),
> > so that hfaxd is connecting to that bogus IP.
>
> That's a LINKLOCAL address -- a made-up DHCP address, assigned by
> Windows when it tries to get an address and can't.  I had a problem
> with the same thing on a w2k machine at a clients', last year.  For
> some reason, there's a phantom interface in the OS, and WHFC is
> apparently binding to the wrong one.

There is a phantom interface even if I'm using statically assigned
addresses without DHCP?

> Did you service pack the machine recently?

Nope. Maybe I should...

  D.


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