From: Gregg N 

"Geo."  wrote in news:40a6af6b{at}w3.nls.net:

> I can suggest a possible solution, in NT4 there was an MSloopback
> adaptor so you could setup networking without actually having a
> network card, that might work if XP includes the loopback adaptor
> choice in network adaptors.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think it is suitable. Removing the
ethernet cable as I described was just a stress test sort of thing. The
machine does have to be networked for other purposes.

Gregg

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