Comments on: Ehternet adapter question.

By: natethegreat

natethegreat — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 22:36:33 +0000

Actualy come to find out it was the driver all along, after updating to the newest NIC driver vai windows update. Also come to find out this was happenening on about 10 laptops and really lagging down the network. Issue resolved for now!

By: natethegreat

natethegreat — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 22:36:25 +0000

By: jester42

jester42 — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 22:13:08 +0000

at a guess and not knowing the hardware or setup i say you have a port scanner or packet sniffer timing out
how long does this go on for after the boot is finished is it doing it all the time or just a boot.

By: duduspace

duduspace — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 03:42:04 +0000

Hook up a sniffer to the port and ascertain what kind of traffic is being sent, there may be a port scanning process scanning non-existent ip addresses which are subsequently timing out without replies. Being able to ping static ips suggest the card works well

By: natethegreat

natethegreat — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:23:33 +0000

I can ping static IP’s no problem, and i have tried a different NIC, I do see the utilization jump when browsing the network and when i view the LAN connection status there is about 300 billion sent packets and 428 received!

By: santoscardenas

santoscardenas — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:51:31 +0000

Try pinging a known good static IP. If you have XP, open the task manager and go to the networking tab. On the view enable the bytes sent and received. This will give you the true indication of the actual traffic. If you want to see any resends, you will have to utilize the performance monitor and set up a trace on the network interface card for any discards and/or errors. The traffic you see at startup could be authintication if you are on a Domain network. The laptop is trying to establish its identity on the Domain.