I have 5.2.13 on XP machines and 5.2.6 on NT4, with Intel chips.

My router died a couple of weeks back. Previously it had served as the PPPoE client for my ISP. To continue running whilst waiting for the new router, I installed PPPoE software on the machines themselves, and was manually swapping the cables around to allow upload/dowload of wu's. Worked fine, but ouch, my back aches.

The new router arrived, and is again, acting as the PPPoE client. I believe I have removed all of the PPPoE client software from the machines themselves.

BOINC is now popping up a little bubble down near the system notification area saying "BOINC is connecting to the internet" every so often on the XP systems, and once an error saying "BOINC hasa failed to disconnect from the internet" on an NT4 box. To me, this implies that BOINC still thinks it is attached via a dial up.

Obviously I've booted and reset the router.

It all seems to be working, but I am curious as to the change in behaviour, and would prefer it if these popups stopped.

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Open Boinc Manager, Options, Options, Connections.
Set it to Use my LAN connection. OK out.

That should do it. (might need a restart of BOINC).

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I have 5.2.13 on XP machines and 5.2.6 on NT4, with Intel chips.

My router died a couple of weeks back. Previously it had served as the PPPoE client for my ISP. To continue running whilst waiting for the new router, I installed PPPoE software on the machines themselves, and was manually swapping the cables around to allow upload/dowload of wu's. Worked fine, but ouch, my back aches.

The new router arrived, and is again, acting as the PPPoE client. I believe I have removed all of the PPPoE client software from the machines themselves.

BOINC is now popping up a little bubble down near the system notification area saying "BOINC is connecting to the internet" every so often on the XP systems, and once an error saying "BOINC hasa failed to disconnect from the internet" on an NT4 box. To me, this implies that BOINC still thinks it is attached via a dial up.

Obviously I've booted and reset the router.

It all seems to be working, but I am curious as to the change in behaviour, and would prefer it if these popups stopped.

In your Account General preference, Network usage, make sure Confirm before connecting to Internet? no
Update project
also Project Manager, Commands, select Network activity always available

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Boinc V 7.4.36
Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB NVidia 470

Network usage, make sure Confirm before connecting to Internet?

No, it's not that, I haven't changed the preferences, and it wasn't asking me if it could, it was telling me that it had.

Set it to Use my LAN connection.

I had seen that, but noticed it was greyed out on the NT4 system and thus not possible to alter. I have set it like that on the XP's and have not seen the message again.

Do you think BOINC is still seeing a PPPoE client here, or has it registered that there was one and failed to notice it has gone? On the XP system, I had to manually start the PPPoE connection which I am not doing, and have in fact removed.

The NT4 system was a little more troublesome as I had to manually remove an installed service before I could get the PPPoE client to exit/delete.

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The NT4 system was a little more troublesome as I had to manually remove an installed service before I could get the PPPoE client to exit/delete.

Depends on which service you had to remove. If it was one that the NT4 LAN depended on, you may want to reinstall it first.

Or exit Boinc, uninstall it and reinstall it. Just to be sure.
Not having been there when you installd whatever you installed and now uninstaled, it gets very difficult to answer things like that.

Give us a clue: What PPPoE software did you use?

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The service I manually stopped is called WinPPPoverEthernet which was pretty incriminating I thought.

It was installed when I loaded the CD that came with my original broadband package, (which assumes there is no router), it is called, somewhat unoriginally "TDC Internet Broadband", (well, in Danish but that is what it translates to), TDC is "TeleDanmark" these days. It seemed to install 2 virtual devices called WinPoET1 and WinPoET2, and a series of drivers, which I have subsequently removed.

The ethernet set up looks clean with just the needed protocols, adaptors and bindings present now.

The error I saw on the NT4 box has not re-appeared and all seems normal.

The remaining issues are, why did BOINC keep "thinking" it was on a dialup after the dialup was removed, I'm thinking something got shoved into the registry and never gets reset. Also the Options->Connections being greyed out on 5.2.6 which could, of course be simply that it was not enabled in the first place in that release.

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