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NWLNKRIP Data Structures Corruption when Using a Demand Dial NIC

Article ID: 160493

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q160493

SYMPTOMS

In stress redial conditions, using a demand-dial network interface card on a Windows NT server may result in a line ready message being ignored.

CAUSE

High intensity redial stress causes corruption of client node hash table lists. When a line ready message is received on a demand-dial network interface card that has not been reset from the previous client, it is ignored. However, subsequent line not ready messages are processed, resulting in a RemoveListEntry operation on the node that has already been removed from the list.

WORKAROUND

This problem does not occur if you configure the RAS server IPX configuration to not assign the same network number to all IPX clients.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 4.0. This problem has been corrected in the latest U.S. Service Pack for Windows NT version 4.0. For information on obtaining the Service Pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):

S E R V P A C K

Additional query words: prodnt

Keywords: kbnetwork KB160493