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Windows 7 DHCP Default Gateway not Overridden by manual Default Gateway

We have recently installed Windows 7 for student computers. All student computers must be routed through our content filter which is located at 192.168.0.63. This was done in WinXP by adding a Default ...
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Multiple Homed Windows 2008 Server / Windows 7 Client

I have a small Windows 2008 network, with some Windows 7 clients. The clients are both laptops with docking stations and I would like them to communicate with the Windows 2008 server (for filesharing) ...
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Machine cannot communicate on local network any more

I have a machine that has a problem I've never seen and cannot understand. The machine is a Dell laptop with Windows 7 Ultimate. The user tried to do something fancy with this machine (bridging the ...
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Maximum number of TCP clients in Windows 7?

I am running client load testing software for my server from a Windows 7 Enterprise box. The client box is able to get up to 16346 TCP connections out, and then it starts giving the error “An ...
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Windows XP/7: custom routing for VPN connection

We are dealing with a badly configured VPN connection from a vendor, which set up the default gateway but doesn't route traffic anywhere beyond their VPN zone. I managed to do some ad-hoc routing to ...
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TCP/IP Stack in Windows Server 2008 vs Windows 7 Ultimate

Does anyone know the details as to the differences between the TCP/IP stack in Windows Server 2008 (Standard) vs Windows 7 Ultimate? This question pertains to TCP/IP ONLY. I know that Windows 7 and ...
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Accepting a connection on a socket on Windows 7 takes more than a second

Here's what I've done: I wrote a minimal web server (using Qt, but I don't think it's relevant here). I'm running it on a legal Windows 7 32-bit. The problem: If I make a request with Firefox, ...
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Windows 7 TCP Listen Ports

My fresh install of Windows 7 shows 5 programs listening on TCP ephermeral ports: TCP 0.0.0.0:49152 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING TCP 0.0.0.0:49153 0.0.0.0:0 ...
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IPv4 over IPv6?

In Windows, with IPv4 stack disabled, can I encapsulate IPv4 addresses over the IPv6 stack to reach an IPv4 host ?