From: "Robert Comer" 

> How are you disabling the network on the one version?

I can do it one of two ways,setting the networking to not-connected, and
the other ways is to set it to local only, in that mode it can only see
itself or another VM set to local only.  Local only is what I'm planning,
but I'll probably do a test later with no connectivity whatsoever.

>Mine had an active and working gateway, it was just prevented from talking
>to most of the internet (it could talk to all of netlink and probably
>thought it should be able to talk to the whole internet).

That's pretty close to local only. (at least as close as I can get without
null routing, which would hurt my main connectivity, which I can't do.)

Local only has its own subnet but no passthru gateway...

--
Bob Comer


"Geo."  wrote in message news:459989d1{at}w3.nls.net...
> How are you disabling the network on the one version? Mine had an active
> and working gateway, it was just prevented from talking to most of the
> internet (it could talk to all of netlink and probably thought it should
> be able to talk to the whole internet).
>
> Disabling the network is different than that, it can't talk to anything.
> That may be a significant difference, one we should be looking at. It's
> the reason I was specifying that the block was done with routes.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:45997729$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> I'm game, but I'll be running Vista in a VM, and 2 instances of it.  One
>> disabling the license server and the other with no network connectivity
>> at all other than the initial activation. I'd run a third with null
>> routes, but I don't have enough RAM to go around...
>>
>> I'm very curious as to what might be going on.
>>
>> --
>> Bob Comer
>>
>>
>> "Geo."  wrote in message
news:45995f08$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> "mike"  wrote in message
>>> news:um3ip2dotvqsq2ouu3oem6drun5lfmra65{at}4ax.com...
>>>
>>>> [aside to Geo.: I think you're right, the marketing droids and
>>>> accountants *have* taken over Redmond.  No techie in
her/his right mind
>>>> would utter a phrase like "Enhanced Reduced
Functionality".]
>>>
>>> It's like the Monty python skit about stringetts..
>>>
>>> The folks over at MS are nuts. I've been poking this thing with a stick
>>> and it's real nasty.. anyway the first signs of reduced functionality
>>> are solitaire, network properties, and control panel failing to start
>>> up, you get the magic donut and then nothing..
>>>
>>> I'm running a second test to see what goes next but it will take another
>>> 24 hours to get past where I was. It also may be different, since MS has
>>> built in the capability to determine most recently used over time, it
>>> may shut different things down depending on what gets used and how often
>>> it gets used. I'd need someone else running vista to disable the
>>> software license service to see if their order of RF is the same as
>>> mine. (bob, you game?)
>>>
>>> Geo.
>>
>>
>

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