Re: [hylafax-users] Win2k weirdness

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 07:05:45PM +0200, Danilo Godec wrote:
> 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?

It appears there is, yes.

> > Did you service pack the machine recently?
> 
> Nope. Maybe I should...

I never advise either way on that topic.  :-)

Cheers,
- jra
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