Re: WIndows XP SP2 "breaks" things

["Gregory A. Gilliss" <ggilliss () netpublishing com>]

All,

One thing that definitely will make certain products unhappy is M$ has
turned off outbound connections on the loopback subnet 127.0.0.0/8.
So any product that used to utilize a loopback address for connectivity
is not going to be able to do that anymore with SP2 unless some serious
modifications occur, and this is *not* related to the Internet Firewall
feature AFAIK.

G

On or about 2004.08.11 12:54:45 +0000, Castigliola, Angelo (ACastigliola () unumprovident com) said:

> You should take a look into the new firewall feature that is turned on
> by default with SP2. When I installed SP2 RC1 on my computer I notice
> that my SMS Administrators Console was broken. I later tracked it down
> to the fact that SMS sends a lot of information to your computer over
> UDP and it was being blocked by SP2. This could be the root of a good
> number of the problems you are experiencing. 

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