RE: Windows XP SP2

["Phil Brett" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kevin.

It's a Shuttle FN41 board with nForce2 on-broad Ethernet (it has only
one). There's a firewire connection to a dvd-recorder and nothing else.

Hub is version 1.2.7.1.

It's an XP related thing as both my Windows 2003 servers are going great
guns. Strange.

The biggest pain is I've written an X10 controller GUI that does lights
/ heating etc and testing it is rather difficult now!

I take it that xAP messages are 255.255.255.255 broadcasts to a UDP port
number? Not that it matters without the firewall.

I'm racking my brains for any other software that the non-working
machines have in common. Here's hoping that an MS update hasn't got me.

Thanks

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Hawkins [mailto:lists@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 12 December 2004 15:47
To: xap_automation@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [xap_automation] Windows XP SP2


Phil Brett wrote:

> Well, it's a few weeks later, I've got less hair but still no xAP
> messages. I've installed Sniffer and even it doesn't see any broadcast

> messages from xAP, so it's quite low down in the protocol stack. I've
> disabled the firewall service, and plugged a working (ie receiving)
> laptop into the same port as the working machine. It was fine.
>
> And now a second machine (XP SP2) has started the same thing!
>
> I can't believe I'm the only one with this issue. Problem is, I'm at a

> loss where to look next!
>
> T
>
Hi Phil,

All my machines are running XP SP2 without any issues - one some I have
the firewall turned off - and on the others I have setup the firewall to

pass xAP. Very strange.. There must be something differemt about your
setup . How many network interface cards are installed and operational
in the machine and which xAP hub are you running ?

Kevin