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A couple curiosities: I've seen a few home/sb routers whose firewall will drop a TTL of not only 0, but 1 as well. Any thoughts on why this is? Does it make sense to drop even a TTL 0 at the home router level? The packet has already gone through the internets and is now on the cusp of your...

I'm needing to compare what is actually transmitted in the MAC destination or MAC source octets/bytes of an Ethernet frame, against an expected value expressed in hexadecimal. The need for hexadecimal is part of a syntax I must use. My question is to the correctness of the following method...

Last night my computer started powering off on its own. I ended up pulling everything from the case. I reseated the CPU/heatsink. Removed all but one DIMM of RAM in slot 1. I ended up reinserting the graphics card(there is no onboard video, I wanted to see if POST would complete). The power...

Anyone have experience with NEC when it comes to warranties? The bottom right corner of my 20WMGX2 has a dozen or more gray pixels of varying brightnesses —so many in fact that at first I thought my monitor must have got dirty. I even thought maybe dust had got behind the panel, however all the...

motherboard: msi p35 platinum (socket 775) cpu: intel e6750(sla9v) (socket 775) power supply: cooler master 750w i broke it down as far as i know possible, the motherboard is outside of the case on an anti-static surface, only the 24-pin board power, the 8-pin cpu power, the cpu fan, and the...

should i get one? be serious now and don't laugh:D i want the best possible control, precision, aiming i know they are hard to learn, but how do they compare with a good mouse? one observation is that one would never have to reset the physical position(when you have to lift the mouse up and...

it seems that external links(say an http link received in an instant message or a link to a help page from some other program) will no longer launch my browser, nothing happens, it just stopped working i did check my file extensions, and htm/html are set to open with firefox i created a test...

like the title states, everything is being made very large in i.e. things i've tried; -turning off clear type in i.e. -checked to make sure font size was at medium and zoom at 100% although neither of these should make images larger, besides zoom check the linked image below, it's a comparison...

i'm ignorant when it comes to networking, so bear with me... i have a pc running windows xp connected to a westell 327w dsl transceiver/router the router was using dhcp and i wanted a static ip for my pc, something i could easily remember and browse to over the network so i figured out how to...

my girlfriend forgot the admin name and/or password for her dsl modem/router after a reset -pushed in the little reset button on the back, we set a new admin name and password then we had to reactivate the dsl service and go through the whole installation process again, the username in the...

i have two machines running windows xp pro they are both connected to a dsl modem/router combo(westell 327w) i want to be able to share files between the machines, but do not want one of them to have internet access it was my thinking that this would have to be done inside the routers...