Hello mark,

> On 2018 Nov 20 16:33:02, you wrote to me:

> wow, you have been through everything... one of the things i was getting at
> when asking about the nic drivers was if they were all using the same version
>of the source code for that driver... apparently, though, the problem is highe
>in the tree... you can get to the firewall but can't get out... IPv4 or IPv6 o
>both? i ask because i can do IPv6 internally to a point... i do not, though...
> IPv6 is stopped at my firewall because it doesn't support IPv6 (yet) and have
>all the mods i require... IPv4 just works... i've had a few machines that i ha
> to specifically disable IPv6 on so they would use only IPv4... until my
> firewall supports IPv6, i'm not even worrying about it other then some light
> reading here and there about it...

The router here supports both IPv6 as well as IPv4 and I currently have a
block of static IP's that I use. I have the DNS servers setup for both IPv6
and IPv4 use. I currently have the router's firewall's for IPv6 and IPv4
disabled. As I wanted to eliminate them as a possible cause. I had setup
the PC to use both IPv4 and IPv6 as the primary and the other as a fallback
to use. Neither arrangement made a difference to the connection problem. As
I think I mentioned I have replaced/upgraded the router to a newer one and
it made no difference to the connection issue of being able to make
outbound connections. I was able to connect and ping the router. Oddly I
was also able to ping the Google's DNS servers ok. But was unable to
connect or ping Google itself OR anywhere else.


Jeff

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