My blogging has decreased dramatically - I know! I've a lot to catch up on, but I thought this would be a good tidbit to share with respect to my earlier post about not being able to browse my local IIS on my Vista laptop.
Well, after much digging, I discovered that the issue is related to my IPSec policies - somewhere, there's a conflict in the rules that the corp net pushes down to my machine when I connect to the network.
I "fixed" my problem by stopping the IPSec service. Horrors! Yes, I know. Violating a bazillion policies, but dammit! I want control of my machine! It even held me up from launching my Virtual Server console.
I began to believe it wasn't a firewall issues and more in the IPSec direction after reviewing a few articles online and discovering that I could not ping the loopback adapter (127.0.0.1), but could ping external sites.
Lesson learned - word to the wise. Now, it's a whole other matter on how I'm going to get the IPSec policies rationalized...
