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What’s happening in this picture? Use Netmon to figure it out?

Ok, here’s an interesting picture from my network this morning.  Can you figure out what’s going on?  Is Windows 7 confused?  By the way, Netmon 3.x is a really powerful network tool.  I was using it yesterday to diagnose a completely different question.

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  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2009
    You have part of the puzzle.

  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2009
    Not even close on that one.  It's really much simpler. There is a wired router, the D-Link which is the gateway to the internet.  It of course is the DHCP server. There are two wireless bridges.  One is in my home office area of the house, the other is in the den at the entertainment center.  The wireless bridges are on the GigE backbone. win7drt and keithcot61p are in the homeoffice area directly connected to the wired GigE network.  Because they are both laptops and have wireless, they are also connected to the network across wireless. venus is my wife's laptop and is in use in the den via wireless.

  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2009
    When i run beta-software i sometimes play around with it and make misconfigurations on purpose to see how it reacts, if i see the same failure again i can sometime remember what i did to provoke the failure and solve the problem really fast. I thought perhaps you did the same in preparation for a presentation where you were demonstrating the Problem Recorder software in Windows 7. That gives me an idea, how about a webcast series about what really happens (and what it looks like from a client-pcs point of view) when important infrastructure fails, with recordings showing what the early warnings look like (after 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 2 days and so on). Perhaps even a webcast showing how System Center would see the situation. I got the idea with System Center from this XKCD comic: http://xkcd.com/350/