nVidia firewall

[Guest]

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Anyone here using it? When I use the nVidia LAN on my nForce4 board
(A8N-SLI Deluxe) and enable the nVidia firewall, I can't reach the site:
http://www.postbank.nl/
even using the 'off' setting on the firewall doesnt help. Switching to
the other LAN chip on the board (for which the nVidia firewall doesn't
work) solves the problem.

Anyone else having similar problems?

 

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RJT wrote:

> Anyone here using it? When I use the nVidia LAN on my nForce4 board
> (A8N-SLI Deluxe) and enable the nVidia firewall, I can't reach the site:
> http://www.postbank.nl/
> even using the 'off' setting on the firewall doesnt help. Switching to
> the other LAN chip on the board (for which the nVidia firewall doesn't
> work) solves the problem.
>
> Anyone else having similar problems?

What does a trace-route tell you?

Windows: "tracert www.postbank.nl"
Unix/Linux: "traceroute www.postbank.nl"
(without the "").

Could be an intermediate carrier not routing properly. Could be a DNS
failure, could be a number of things. Just saying "can't reach this site"
means very little. Please read:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Cheers,

James
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