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re: Question about 'Use Dial-Up Networking over a LAN'
Monday, December 8, 2003 at 8:32 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Al
(1 messages posted)
Actually, your system can handle IPX and TCP/IP at the same time. The problem may
be however that your system has IPX set at the default. When your application sends
a request to the network and IPX times-out, the app may be aborting the request before
the system can attempt to make the connection over TCP/IP. Or your system is somehow
not configured to make another attempt on TCP/IP. However, these days, when IPX
is called for, it is usually because the application wants to use "friendly" network
names, like MyServer. TCP/IP, alone, does not support "friendly" network names. Netbios
is used to help TCP/IP work with "friendly" network names. Bottom line, make sure
you have Netbios over TCP/IP enabled and you should be able to remove IPX and you'll
get the best of both worlds.
On Thursday, June 19, 2003 at 11:18 pm, Andrew wrote:
>I've had the same problem... Most games use the IPX protocol when you play over
>a network. Virtually no programs use the IPX protocol over the internet, but when
>you use a network card to connect to a DSL or cable or such, it still has an IPX
>protocol. The catch is your computer can only handle one at a time.
>
>In short; remove the IPX protocol from the network card that has your DSL and make
>sure there's one for the card connecting you to your LAN.
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