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From: Matt Lavinder on 12 Feb 2006 08:00 I recently started receiving the following error message when surfing the Internet: Connecting through WAN Miniport (PPPOE)... Error 678: The remote computer did not respond. For further assistance, click More Info or search Help and Support Center for this error number. Up until this morning, I had been assigning an IP address to the machine in question. This morning the message started appearing more frequently, so I switched the settings so the LAN Card would obtain the IP address automatically. The error went away and I haven't seen it again. I access the computer remotely and have my DSL modem and router configured to forward to the appropriate ports to the affected machine. There is more than one machine on my home network, so having it obtain the IP address automatically is problematic. Here is the configuration that I was using when I was receiving the error: DSL Modem IP: 192.168.0.1 Router IP: 192.168.1.100 IP address: 192.168.1.101 Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 Default gateway: 162.168.1.100 Preferred DNS Server: 192.168.1.100 I am using Windows XP Pro SP2 and all of these connections are LAN connections. The machine in question is not connecting via wireless. Again, it seemed this configuration had been working until recently. Does anyone have any ideas?
From: Robert L [MS-MVP] on 12 Feb 2006 13:24 That doesn't make sense "There is more than one machine on my home network, so having it obtain the IP address automatically is problematic". it is better to use DHCP if you have more computers so that you don't need to setup each computer manually. If you configure TCP/IP manually, you may have more troubles like this one. What are the IP, DG and DNS you setup manually? Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com "Matt Lavinder" <arms_matt(a)msn.com> wrote in message news:rjGHf.17632$vU2.7549(a)newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net... I recently started receiving the following error message when surfing the Internet: Connecting through WAN Miniport (PPPOE)... Error 678: The remote computer did not respond. For further assistance, click More Info or search Help and Support Center for this error number. Up until this morning, I had been assigning an IP address to the machine in question. This morning the message started appearing more frequently, so I switched the settings so the LAN Card would obtain the IP address automatically. The error went away and I haven't seen it again. I access the computer remotely and have my DSL modem and router configured to forward to the appropriate ports to the affected machine. There is more than one machine on my home network, so having it obtain the IP address automatically is problematic. Here is the configuration that I was using when I was receiving the error: DSL Modem IP: 192.168.0.1 Router IP: 192.168.1.100 IP address: 192.168.1.101 Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 Default gateway: 162.168.1.100 Preferred DNS Server: 192.168.1.100 I am using Windows XP Pro SP2 and all of these connections are LAN connections. The machine in question is not connecting via wireless. Again, it seemed this configuration had been working until recently. Does anyone have any ideas?
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