85-minute-death

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I'm having what appears to be a rather unusual problem.
None of the experts I've worked with on it seem to have a
clue what could be causing it.

When I connect either of two XP-Pro based computers
directly to the Internet via the broadband device,
everything works just fine. However, when I take either
of these computers and put them behind a router, both
exhibit the same problem: After about 85 minutes, the
browser is unable to access any websites, Outlook is
unable to send/receive email, and the ftp client does not
work (including the command prompt "ftp".)

What does continue to work is ping. I can ping to my
heart's content, but nothing else seems to work. I can
do tracert, but when I do all the intermittent steps time
out and only the last one reports the total time.

The only fix is to reboot the computer, which seems to
reset the 85-minute clock.

I've checked all the network settings numerous times, and
I haven't been able to find any discrepancies or problems
there. Does anyone on this newsgroup have any idea where
I might look?

Paul
 
I'm having what appears to be a rather unusual problem.
None of the experts I've worked with on it seem to have a
clue what could be causing it.

When I connect either of two XP-Pro based computers
directly to the Internet via the broadband device,
everything works just fine. However, when I take either
of these computers and put them behind a router, both
exhibit the same problem: After about 85 minutes, the
browser is unable to access any websites, Outlook is
unable to send/receive email, and the ftp client does not
work (including the command prompt "ftp".)

What does continue to work is ping. I can ping to my
heart's content, but nothing else seems to work. I can
do tracert, but when I do all the intermittent steps time
out and only the last one reports the total time.

The only fix is to reboot the computer, which seems to
reset the 85-minute clock.

I've checked all the network settings numerous times, and
I haven't been able to find any discrepancies or problems
there. Does anyone on this newsgroup have any idea where
I might look?

Paul
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Presumably you configure the PCs to use DHCP to get their IP address
assignment and to assign a DNS server (which is usually a simple
pass-through of the DNS request onto the ISP's DNS server). Sounds like
a problem with your router's DHCP server. If you can't find a
configuration option within the router responsible then maybe the router
lets you assign static IP addresses (based on MAC) and you could
configure your hosts to use those static IP addresses (or just let them
use DHCP but the router fixes the IP address to each host).
 
[ cross-posted to windowsxp.network_web from ie6.browser]
The only fix is to reboot the computer
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In addition to Vanguard's comments about DHCP

Open a command window and enter
ipconfig /all
to see if your remaining lease time is the issue.

If so, my guess is that
ipconfig /renew
would be sufficient to get it going again (instead of rebooting)
but obviously it shouldn't be necessary.

So the problem then would be to try to find out
why it is not renewing automatically.

That would be off-topic for this newsgroup and I don't think
that you will find the necessary expertise here to answer it anyway.
Try this newsgroup instead (which I will cross-post to now because
I would be interested in seeing an answer too because this question
does come up here in ie6.browser occasionally):

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Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
 
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