Re: Intermittent Internet Connection Lose...PLEASE HELP

Thanks for the hint. I have had this problem for over a year - driving me
crazy. It is Zone Alarm related. If you go to their user forum at
http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs/board/message?board.id=security&message.id=13920 the fix is posted.



"Terry" wrote:

Hi Guys,

I have finally debugged the problem. It ws Zone Alarm. The version i was
running had a flaw whereby the firewall would drop the TCP port 445 and all
connections woould fail and the TCP stack would cease. I fixed this by
uninstalling and removing all entries from the registry (very carefully of
course).

I then performed a reg cleanup (which i hate doing) to ensure that all
registry assocoations in my software hive had been removed.

I then downloaded the lates version. Whish i could give you specifics. My
machines HDD died last week right after fixing it hahaha the irony. Anyway
after i installed it i ensured that i allowed traversing between specifc
TCP/UDP ports that i used and never saw the problem again....

I have since performed alot of testing and my connection remains live. I
performed a drwatsn32 /p (PID) against the truevector service to see if it
fails when it releases its hold on the machine and i saw an error when
releasing TCP. The minidump showed some very interestin things. Again i can't
show the specifics as my machine is dead...

Hope this helps guys.....
Terry

"phil6666" wrote:


Interesting...I wish I had an answer.

My internet connection remains solid, but my email timeouts continue.

In the middle of an email timeout, I tried to ping mail.adelphia.net
and all looks fine!!!!

Does a ping of a mail server mean anything???



On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 02:39:01 -0700, Terry
<Terry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

I am also experiencing the same issues. I have been monitoring my router
status during the drop off and it seems that the external connection remains
live.. Very wierd. At first i thought it may have been DNS related but i
added a specific firewall rule to and monitred. Still the same issue. Even
whilst writting this i have experienced 2 loss off connections to the net.
This is becoming very annoying... It seems alot of people across the globe
areexperiencing the same thing...

During the loss of connection i initiate a ping to www.google.com -t. I get
a "request time out" response. I then repair my connection and it fixes the
problem... So i thought i might perform a "netsh int ip reset reset.txt"
Still the same problem...

Please Help.

Terry


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