Hello,

i am going nuts! this is my problem: i am running a network of 213.38.33.0 subnet 255.255.255.128. Clients pick ip addresses from a dhcp server. All clients accesss the internet directly through a router 213.38.33.1. All of a sudden, some clients cannot access the router. this happened first on a W2k proff, then win95b and now a win98se client. they can ping all other clients and servers but cannot ping the router. i have tried using static ip's, changing ip's, reinstalling NIC drivers and also reinstalling the TCP/IP protocol in all cases but to no avail. in all cases i changed the network cards and the problem went away. but surely does this mean that these network cards are faulty, yet they can connect to the network and ping all other machines apart from the router?

anyone with an idea of what is happening?