From: "Randy H" 

A lot of the bridging I've seen is directly attriutbale to the Networking
Wizard's penchant to create birdges duting the wizards' execution.

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
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> Yeah, I've seen that firewire instance bring grief to a couple of XP
machines.
> I agree that just disabling it seems a safe course, and a cure for me,
too.
> Spurious bridges, though, I usually delete.  Any contrary opinions?
>
> This stuff seems to be a weakness in XP.  I've seen the bridges, at least,
on
> the machines of users who wouldn't know HOW to play or tweak.  Must be a
> driver-installation thingie. The worst occurrences, if they don't disable
> connectivity, seem to totally disable DHCP-ing to a new net connection.
Even
> WNTIPCFG shows a peculiar NIC name, and the NATted IP is locked - you get
a
> flicker, and the old IP comes up when you "renew."
>
> Sony's the only OEM I know of that actually uses firewire networking.  I
think
> some of their later machines used TCP over Ilink, actually.
>

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