Vista issues
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It appears that DNS is working fine. I have 25 other machines on the same network, plus an equal number of IP phones that connect to an outside company that all work fine. No DNS problems. What other way is there to test specifically for DNS problems? Also, is there a way to change the MTU size? According to this http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/05/0053231 that may be another way to resolve this.
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The other 25 machines and the voipphones are not vista and probably don't even have IPv6 enabled, right? ;)
This is definately some kind of odd vista issue as everything else is working fine. I also have seen some pretty strange prebundled software on some oem-setups that cause me a lot of headache with voip. Things started working when I removed all that crap that noone needs. I think it was something bundled with dell pcs called "trustmanager" or similiar iirc. You also might use spybot search and destroy to check what's in the tcp/ip stack of that machine. That's how I found that trustmanager that had itself linked in there and caused all the pain. -
So no go. Nothing I have tried works. I am at a complete loss. I would love some other ideas/suggestions/anything. I have already updated to the most recent pfSense. I have tried turning off IPv6. I have tried disabling the tunnel sizing. I checked for anything that may have been installed by Dell, of which I found none. I couldn't install Spybot because it needed to down load files from the internet. I need a work around or something. I am open for any suggestions.
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Let's try to nail this down!
We happen to be a Microsoft Partner and as such, just received a Windows Vista Business with SP1 DVD (32bit) (and 10 licenses).
I installed it to a spare machine yesterday and and it worked flawlessly out of the box.
With pfSense 1.2Release and DHCP to the host. I have not added this PC to our domain, though.Which Vista flavour did you install?
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I run Vista Ultimate 64-bit behind pfSense with zero troubles.
I've been running Vista U. x64 for over a year now, and it's been wonderful. :)Let's start with the basics:
Are your Vista installations fully patched?
There are several updates that affect networking on a Vista installation.
If you have not done so, you need to run Windows Update repeatedly until you get every single update offered - up to and including Vista Service Pack 1.Edit:
Obiviously, you're going to need to put the Vista box somewhere not behind pfSense so it can get to the Internet and do it's thing. ;) -
I am using Vista Business, what it came with, and I installed SP1 last night on it. I will try and check for additional updates today.
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So I think I finally found the cause, crappy NIC drivers. I loaded up XP on the box to test it. Downloaded Dell's drivers and lo and behold, the same problem. No DNS. So after some digging I tracked down the driver from Intel's site and installed it. Voila! Works like a charm. Unfortunately the same is not true under Vista. Even with the Intel driver it still won't work. So for now the user is stuck with XP, not that I think that's a bad thing, I still don't like Vista. But it looks the like the whole issue is related to crappy Dell drivers. They didn't even have the correct video card driver for the machine! So for future reference Dell driver's suck! Also, thanks for all the input.
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In my mind a downgrade to XP from Vista is an upgrade. Same CPU will give you twice the performance on XP than Vista.
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If you add all this fancy stuff that keeps you from being productive and the time for searching for formerly well known functions the count goes up! ::)
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It took me less time to get used to osx than to get used to vista. For home use I already replaced my workstation and my notebook with apple stuff. Much less pain, it simply works and is much faster than vista.