Paul wrote in :

A question for you. How many LAN connections do you have ?

Disconnected them when I hooked up DSL modem to the Ethernet socket on my
emachine. So none. After I get the newsreader working - if I do - I'll work
on LAN. I think I just need to plug Ethernet line from backup system
(Compaq) into CenturyLink DSL modem next to the one from emachine and I'll
get DSL to Compaq and restore LAN.

I have a theory that maybe that trace isn't complete. Wireshark,
you tell it to look at a specific interface. What if you had
a second interface, and some of the packets were on there
instead ?

I would review your network setup, like if you have both Wifi and
Ethernet cable, make sure that things are put together in a
simple-to-understand way.

No Wi-fi. All I have is DSL modem hooked to emachine Ethernet port. Nothing
but CenturyLink ISP connected to DSL modem.

The reason I say that, is I see

Response: 200 Optimax-NNTP, Optimax-Hamster V1.24 Src:
98.100.194.170 Src Port: nntp (119) Response: 200 ignored
Src: 98.100.194.170 Src Port: nntp (119)

The Optimax - Hamster is the news server I'm trying to get headers from
that is not working. Or are you referring to something else I'm missing?
I'm pretty dense. Sorry.

That 119?


It's almost like another path from your machine is sending
a request as well or something.

If I go to Command Prompt and enter

ipconfig /all

currently I get

Windows IP Configuration

five lines of generic stuff...

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 3

...
IP Address 192.168.20.34
...
Lease Obtained
Lease Espires

and there is just the one interface evident there.
I don't have any IPV6 or anything, showing.

Maybe both your wired and wireless are running at the
same time. The OS is supposed to have a solution for that
(metrics), to figure out which path to use, so it's not
supposed to be a problem. Maybe you need Wireshark to collect
info from both. Or alternately, simplify the setup so it's
a bit easier to analyze.

Another thing. When I use Xnews on the emachine it connects to Individual
net (Usenet) and Sci-fi (SFF) news servers with no problem. When it tries
to get headers and counts from Optimax it only gets the number of messages
(but not the headers themselves) for the first group, then times out.
Optimax works fine with Xnews on Compaq.

I'll read your message again later when I have more time.


Paul



Ken


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