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This smells like XP network parameter stupids. I have seen multiple XP
(home and Pro) systems that inxplicatively drop parts of the network
setup. The most often dropped part as DNS serves. The system seems to
cache some stuff so it appears that the box is sort-of working (i.e. can
hit some places and not others). I've seen this with dhcp and static IP
systems. It also is not brand specific (on motherboard, CPU, or NIC). I
suspect that the registry is corrupted but no enough to cause a total
failure. 

Turn up the logging on the smoothie box and try to compare time stamping
to see if the incidents correspond with garbage packets hitting the
firewall.

> 
> DHCP and DNS is provided by a win2K ActiveDirectory server. It seems 
> that the Smoothwall should be completely unaware of the domain structure 
> and simply be routing based on MAC address and IP so it doesn't seem 
> that the Smoothie would just intermittently start dropping port 80 
> requests from a single client then recover after the user logged off and 
> back on (as the ip doesn't get touched in that situation).
> 
> I'm beating my head against a wall trying to figure it out. Any ideas?
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