Re: [NTLK] Fwd: Problem with 3com Ethernet card at work

From: Peter H. Coffin (hellsop_at_ninehells.com)
Date: Fri Feb 14 2003 - 07:09:30 PST


On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:56:31PM -0600, Bill Miranda wrote:
> I have a Newton 2100 and I have installed all of the NIE 2.0 drivers
> and the drivers necessary for my Newton to recognize the 3com 3C589C
> card that I purchased. I know this because at home I am able to
> connect to my ethernet router and surf the web using Nethopper over my
> cable modem. At work, when I connect to my office's Ethernet network,
> it seems to work also but it doesn't connect to websites. What happens
> in Nethopper is that a slip pops up asking me how I want to connect. I
> pick my wired ethernet setup. It loads DHCP protocol and assigns me an
> IP number, then it shows the striped bar for a second and comes back
> with an HTTP Server error 303. This happens to all the same web sites
> that I successfully connect with from home. I would have though that
> my setup was okay because the DHCP part is working and the network is
> assigning me an IP number. What should I try to troubleshoot this
> situation?
> Thanks!

Ask your IT people if they've got an http proxy set up; the 303 error is
a redirect that is supposed to hand back a URL where the response to the
request can be fetched from, but older browsers often fail to comprehend
what to do and present the error message instead.

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