Windows XP sp2 killing BB connection?

Gillie

Hi All,

I have a strange problem. If I leave my Laptop idle for a period of time, when I come back the Wireless connection will be "dead".
So I plug in the Cat5 cable but I don't seem to get anywhere. I cannot get into the properties of the LAN connection or the Wireless connection.
A reboot of the Laptop will sort it.
After going through Event Viewer I found this Warning:
TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts.
I googled it and found this article:
http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=1497

There doesn't appear to be a fix on Microsoft.com for this but this issue is highlighted.
Anyone come across this? Anyone apply the fix mentioned?

Cheers!

Shane O' Malley

That limit was put in by Microsoft to halt the behavior of some viruses.

First thing i would do is check for Viruses and spywhere. Any strange services running. Internet Connection Sharing?

Anything like that.

Shane

McAlban

SP2 Limits your outgoing TCP/IP connections to 10.

Make sure there's NO Spyware or Viruses running then edit TCPIP.SYS.

http://www.phex.org/mambo/content/view/49/33/

Gillie

Shane O' Malley wrote:

That limit was put in by Microsoft to halt the behavior of some viruses.

First thing i would do is check for Viruses and spywhere. Any strange services running. Internet Connection Sharing?

Anything like that.

Shane

Machine is clean from Viruses/Spyware.
Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) service is running.
Should I disable it?

Gillie

Going to edit tcpip.sys with that patch.

Cheers

Capt'n Midnight

have you got a firewall running , it should reduce the number of connections