Howdy,
For months, I have been plagued by an odd networking
problem:
If I left my laptop on, but idle, for several hours, it
always lost the ability to browse. It could ping
successfully, but it could not browse properly (it might be
able to browse a machine or two on our 6 node LAN, but it
could never browse Internet.)
When this happened, the error message was that the "network
name was not accessible."
Of course, with that low level of specificity, this was
impossible to diagnose.
Until today...
Today, for some reason, I got a much more useful error
message:
"The Name Limit for the local computer network adapter card
was exceeded."
With that, I quickly found MSKB Article # 319504 and felt
that I was on my way to a solution.
The MS recommendation was that I set the value of a
particular reg key (MaxUserPort) to a particular value
(65534).
Easy enough, I thought, but...
When I navigated to the (probably) offending key, I was
surprised to find it missing.
But, no matter, I thought, because the article offered an
alternative modification. Instead of messing with
MaxUserPort, I could modify the key TcpTimedWaitDelay that
was to be found in the same location.
Well, it too, was missing.
So, I created the missing key for MaxUserPort, and entered
the appropriate value.
Now, my question:
How does this sort of thing happen? That is, why might those
keys not be in place at all?
Sincere thanks for any thoughts,
--
Kenneth
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