Advanced Networking Pack For Windows XP
Spinner
Birmingham, UK
Microsoft have made available a new networking pack for Windows XP SP1. The pack includes a new version of the IPv6 stack and an IPv6 firewall.
This update is quite significant because it includes new support for NAT traversal for IPv6 supporting applications.
Download:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/f/1/2f1a22fd-e838-4bc6-ac40-fbdbcc3a17a4/WindowsXP-KB817778-x86-ENU.exe
Information Page:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e88cc382-8ce6-4739-97c0-1a52a6f005e4&DisplayLang=en
This update is quite significant because it includes new support for NAT traversal for IPv6 supporting applications.
Download:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/f/1/2f1a22fd-e838-4bc6-ac40-fbdbcc3a17a4/WindowsXP-KB817778-x86-ENU.exe
Information Page:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e88cc382-8ce6-4739-97c0-1a52a6f005e4&DisplayLang=en
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Prof
(The slow one... )
Spinner- Does this require SP1?
bothered.
Damm! Took a look at the info page and it does require SP1 Damm, Damm, Damm.:banghead:
Going by what Microsoft have said, and by my very basic understanding of the problems surround NAT, ICS and all the other stuff which causes Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger 5 and below, so much trouble with stuff like file transfers and video hook ups, I think that this new networking pack may contain the necessary fixes (IPv6) to fix some of the issues with NAT traversal. However, some of those issues have now become moot, at least as far as MSN Messenger is concerned, because version 6.0 now contains a change in the architecture of the webcam functions and the file transfer engine which allow them more easily to work around ICS/NAT etc etc.
Does that answer your question?
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Prof