[peterosesbookie]

I have an etherfast Cabel/DSL Router with four port switch. I installed sp2 on my test machine and the damn thing would connect and then drop the connection immediately and then freeze up the nic card which is a 3com tx97 with 3xp chip 168bit processing. The issue was either the nic card or the router. I tested the nic card and everything test fine between computers, ping times were great.

Then I went to test the router and the router had issues. My workstation/server/audio+video computer had not issues with service pack 1. I went and then looked at the firmwares. I had a previous firmware. I upgraded the firmware and everything was fixed at that point. Plus come to find out I found this in the readme of Service Pack 2.

Network and Communications

Compatibility Issues with Non-Microsoft PPPoE Client Applications
This note applies if you are using a non-Microsoft virtual private network (VPN) application to access your computer remotely.

Many non-Microsoft Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) client applications do not operate properly or install correctly with Windows XP. If your Internet service provider (ISP) requires PPPoE to connect to the Internet, you can solve PPPoE problems by using the PPPoE client in Windows XP, or you can request a Windows XP–compatible PPPoE client application from your software vendor or ISP.

If you use one of the following products, contact the vendor for a Windows XP–compatible version of their software:

WinPoET version 2.1a or earlier
EnterNet 300 version 1.34 or earlier.

[Vampyromaniac]

moved to Windows, with the rest of the SP2 stuff