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Dial up default gateway offline?

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  • 10-12-2006 10:33pm
    #1
    120_Minutes
    Registered Users Posts: 4,706 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    I'm having a problem with my dial up. I have two dial up ISP's , Talktalk (default) and eircom (backup). everything was fine until recently, when i discovered that i could not view certain sites (hotmail, gmail, secure creditcard booking pages) or sign into msn. pretty much all other sites are fine. the only clue to my problem was when i ran the msn troubleshooter and it told me my default gateway was offline, but couldnt repair it. I tried checking with ipconfigs and it says my default gateway is the same as my IP address. I dont know why this has happened as no settings have been changed. it just started doing this out of the blue.....i've googled the problem but only found answers pertaining to broadband, which is no help.

    this problem happens with both isp's.

    Whats going on?


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    #2
    120_Minutes
    Registered Users Posts: 4,706 ✭✭✭120_Minutes


    Can anyone help? please?


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    ethernet
    Registered Users Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭ethernet


    I've only heard of this happening when using a proxy. I doubt you are.

    I take it both your dial-up connections have been set up to obtain an IP address automatically.

    Have you tried deleting both these connection and recreating them? Worth a go.


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    #4
    120_Minutes
    Registered Users Posts: 4,706 ✭✭✭120_Minutes


    I'll give that a go ether, thanks


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    Snowbat
    Registered Users Posts: 1,064 ✭✭✭Snowbat


    Sounds like your machine has a problem with connections to https servers on TCP port 443. MSN Messenger uses https for Passport authentication.

    Are you using Norton Internet Security? There are reports from February indicating a version of this blocks access to port 443:
    http://www.ahfx.net/weblog.php?article=61
    http://www.experts-exchange.com/Security/Q_21729682.html (scroll to 4th last post)

    Check your firewall settings for any possible port 443 blocking.
    Try reinstalling Internet Explorer.


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