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                 Restart, Reboot, thankfully, no Reinstall …

There was a big thunderstorm here this morning and I think it affected the
network somewhat. I turned on the Windows box (what? You think I leave that
thing running all night? With all the garbage Windows spews forth on the
network?) and after it finishes booting, it can't see the network.

The hub shows a connection. I remove the termination from the 10Base2
connection and half the network goes down like it should, so the hub is fine.
Okay, restart Windows.

I check monnet, and I see some wierd stuff—the Windows box is sending out
Ethernet packets with the broadcast address as the source! That's not right.

I shutdown Windows and powercycle the machine.

Now it's okay.

Man, Windows is just sooooooo wierd.


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