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Windows Vista networking pain

I tried running the December Vista drop today, installed fine but unlike previous versions this is refusing to work with my network card. Using IPv4 only it looks like the network is connected but it pinging anything on the network gives me a "General failure error" and when I try pinging it the request times out, for some reason its just not working. Any ideas folks?

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Jason Nadal said:

Try this one out for size:

http://weblogs.asp.net/jnadal/archive/2004/05/27/143504.aspx

Also, ms has suggested trying to disable IPv6, as that MAY help. Oh, and if you've got a dlink brand router, disable SPI (stateful packet inspection) under the firewall settings as it throws away Vista packets (badly formed?).
# December 29, 2005 10:59 AM