Old_Grouch
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I recently received Norton Personal Firewall (2005) and installed it. After the install, I disabled Win XP's firewall and thought I had gone through the settings etc to allow it to work OK.
Most things seem fine. The only problem I can not resolve is it blocking BBR's Monitor (ping and packet loss testing).
When I first noticed it, I went into NPF and added the three monitor sites (ny-monitor, sjc-monitor, sfo-monitor all .dslreports.com) to my list of trusted sites.
Life seemed good again. Now, I occasionally find that the monitor is unable to ping or measure packet loss to me. The result is Shown Here. When I find this sort of void, I open NPF and look through the settings, fail to find the boogy-man then close it and POOF, things correct themselves.
I also use DynSite to monitor and feed my IP address to the monitor utility on BBR. Sorta makes my dynamic IP seem static to the monitor tool.
The flaw does not seem to be related to cold or warm boots of my PC. I have had sync and good ppp sessions for >a week so it doesn't seem that DynSite is failing to keep my IP updated.
I've looked through other posts about NPF and haven't found what seemed to be a parallel problem.
Any thoughts? Wanted to check here 'fore I hit the Symantec site.
Thanks
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