Windows Vista and Crashing CPE

[David Freedman]

I experienced this first hand this weekend, Vista machines with IPv6 enabled when attached to a small office WLAN took turns at causing the router to crash ,

The perplexed end user told me that when a particular employee attached her laptop to the network "Nobody else could use it", the ISP sent out a tech who after spending much time puzzling
over the problem, simply forbade her from attaching to the network.

There seems to be a report of this here:

http://keyliner.blogspot.com/2008/12/vista-unidentified-network-problem.html

The CPE in question was a TPNet(PL) branded ZTE box (ZXV10 W300 running W300_V2.0.0eDR0_PL) , her laptop was running Vista (not sure which service pack) with Atheros AR5007 chipset,
though through some googling, I can see that similar incidents have occurred.

The fix was to temporarily disable V6 on the machine for now until the the ISP can provide an updated firmware image , after explaining to the office the cause of this, having never heard of IPv6 it failed leave them with a wonderful first impression.

Dave.



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