From: Jefferson Cowart (jeff@cowart.net)
Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 19:38:03 CST
We are having a problem dealing with machines that are using Windows XP,
have multiple network cards, and have enabled network bridging. The problem
stems from the problem that we also have a wireless network and when clients
are connected to both networks we end up with a loop due to the connections
being bridged. What we are trying to do is find a way to identify the
machines that have network bridging enabled and present them with a
different page that tells them how to disable bridging. If I can figure out
how to identify them I know how to do the rest. Does anyone know of anyway
to identify a machine that has bridging enabled. In my examination so far
every machine that has had bridging enabled has had a MAC address starting
with "02:". Looking through the registered systems every machine that has a
MAC starting with "02" is running Windows XP so it looks like we might be
able to find them this way, but that doesn't strike me as the best test in
the off chance that someone has a NIC that has a legitimate MAC starting
with 02. Has anyone else run into this problem and found a solution to it.
Thanks for the help.
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Thanks
Jefferson Cowart
Jeff@cowart.net
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