Curious Question

[richiestang_78]

So i just got a copy of COD 5 for PC, and for some strange reason when I get a error in game of "Server Authentication Error", when I exit the game my internet no longer works on my pc till i restart my mode/router or pc. I know what causes the error in the game, but what would make it hang my internet up like that on my PC. I cant even connect to my router form my PC until the restart. Im just curious as this is really annoying and thought someone may of had a similar experience with the game or another program.

[tehboris]

Update the network/motherboard drivers.

The drivers for your network adapter are possibly badly written and have a bug that is caused by a particular set of data, but apparently not so badly written to cause a kernel panic.

If updating the drivers for the adapter does not resolve the issue try a different network adapter. A friend of mine had to replace a gigabit network adapter with a much cheaper one becasue some thing about the network card hated bittorrent (could have been driver, could have been firmware, could have been a physical limitation of the adapter, who knows).

Originally Posted by richiestang_78

So i just got a copy of COD 5 for PC, and for some strange reason when I get a error in game of "Server Authentication Error", when I exit the game my internet no longer works on my pc till i restart my mode/router or pc. I know what causes the error in the game, but what would make it hang my internet up like that on my PC. I cant even connect to my router form my PC until the restart. Im just curious as this is really annoying and thought someone may of had a similar experience with the game or another program.

Does it just happen with cod 5 or any program that accesses the net? Are there any other machines connected to the same net connection? you might go to the device manager and see if there are any hw conflicts. Any port forwarding required. Check the lease time for dhcp clients on your router. You may want to extend it.

[richiestang_78]

Thus far COD 5 is the only program that has ever done this. I havent really trolled the COD5boards or anything but did find someone else who had a similar problem although he worded it very vague so Im just assuming it is. If it was the card why would resetting the modem/router fix the problem? Its not a huge deal, as I can usually avoid the error in COD 5 which causes the problem it was more of why is it doing that kind of question.

[tehboris]

"restart my mode/router or pc"

Can you restart either to 'fix' the problem?

[richiestang_78]

Yeah a restart of the PC, Modem or Router(although doesn't always fix it with the router restart) fixes the issue. When the issue occurs, in the network control panel it shows me connected to my network(although I cant actually login to the router or anything) then a X between the network and the internet.

[tehboris]

if I was a networking person (and I kind of am) your routes might be getting broken some how. If you run 'route print' it will show you the current routing table on your computer.

===========================================================================
Interface List
0x1 ........................... MS TCP Loopback interface
0x2 ...00 1f c6 f0 ec f0 ...... NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller - Packet Scheduler Miniport
===========================================================================
===========================================================================
Active Routes:
Network Destination        Netmask          Gateway       Interface  Metric
          0.0.0.0          0.0.0.0      192.168.3.1   192.168.3.100       20
        127.0.0.0        255.0.0.0        127.0.0.1       127.0.0.1       1
      192.168.3.0    255.255.255.0    192.168.3.100   192.168.3.100       20
    192.168.3.100  255.255.255.255        127.0.0.1       127.0.0.1       20
    192.168.3.255  255.255.255.255    192.168.3.100   192.168.3.100       20
        224.0.0.0        240.0.0.0    192.168.3.100   192.168.3.100       20
  255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255    192.168.3.100   192.168.3.100       1
Default Gateway:       192.168.3.1
===========================================================================
Persistent Routes:
  None

The line

Network Destination        Netmask          Gateway       Interface
          0.0.0.0          0.0.0.0      192.168.3.1   192.168.3.100

is what makes the Internet work. With out this the Internet won't work.

the line

Network Destination        Netmask          Gateway       Interface
      192.168.3.0    255.255.255.0    192.168.3.100   192.168.3.100

is what makes the local network work. Without this nothing will work. (Except localhost).

[richiestang_78]

Yeah i figured some sort of network issue was getting broke when the game crashed. Thanks, I was just curious, i ended up taking the game off my comp cause it started randomly crashing every 2 seconds anyways.