Firewall Client Pic of the Year

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Firewall Client Pic of the Year
Thomas W Shinder MD


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I’m a big fan of the Firewall client, but sometimes it doesn’t do quite what I want it to. For example, check out the graphic below:



Well, that’s really helpful! This was on a Windows XP machine that was running fine for the last 10 days without a restart (a miracle in itself). I tried to refresh the Firewall client configuration and it gave me the helpful message “TCP/IP transport layer doesn’t function propertly“. Whoa! I’ve never seen that one before. Ever. Never seen it on any version of Windows, so I suppose its a bug in either Windows XP, the Firewall client, or both.


If any of you have ever seen this error, write in to me at [email protected] and let’s put our heads together.


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About The Author

Tom Shinder is a Program Manager at Microsoft and has two decades of networking and security experience. He has written dozens of books, thousands of articles, and spoken at large industry conferences on the topics of IT infrastructure, Cloud computing, and cybersecurity. In his free time, Tom enjoys participating in equine prediction markets.

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