W98 networki enigma

Mike Easter wrote:

I don't understand why I can't access the webserver tool on the
cablemodem by IP address http://192.168.100.1 if I can ping it and
get a ping echo -- and I don't understand why I can ping/echo the
ipchicken site by IP, but I can't get http://209.68.27.16


I fixed it! I fixed it!

I figgered something was wrong with the tcp/ip stack if I could ping but
I couldn't do anything else, so I started looking for repair utilities.
I had already tried removing all of the tcp/ip protocols from the
network config and then reinstalling them, but that didn't do any good.
Some suggested registry repairs.

After searching and searching I found a site^1 which description sounded
like my problem:

sNip
This program is designed to fix a situation where all of the following
are true:
the computer can get a valid IP address
the computer can ping DNS numbers
the computer can be pinged from other computers
all other network services do not work (Telnet, ftp and Web browsers)
/sNip

That all sounded pretty good to me and it sounded like a good way to
repair the registry which had been mentioned somewhere else, so I
performed that operation with the site's win2fix.exe.

But it didn't work. That was very disappointing, because it sounded
like the symptoms were right on the money. As I re-read the school's
website which app was no longer supported because the developer had
graduated or left, the site said that they believed that the app there
may no longer be the best solution and referred me to a different site^2
with a similarly functioning tool.

So, I doggedly went over there and got that one, winsockfix.exe. Altho'
it was designed to fix problems caused by spyware, which I had never had
any trouble with, I still tho't it was a good idea. I made some backups
this time and ran the app which finished in an instant, almost
disappointingly fast.

Then after the reboot... lo! and behold!

Everything was working. Ta da!!

Thanks for everyone's help.


^1 http://www.bu.edu/pcsc/internetaccess/winsock2fix.html
^2 http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=257

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Mike Easter