Thursday, October 19, 2006

Wireless Troubleshooting Part 2

Microsoft provides a neat little tool that can help track down connection problems. While this is not for the novice it can help to provide some extra information by logging your attempt to connect. You can use tracing to troubleshoot other protocols like PPP. The netsh command can also be used to configure network settings.

The command is:

netsh ras set tracing * enabled

netsh ras set tracing * disabled

then view the logs in C:\windows\tracing

Logs of interest

  • Wzctrace.log
  • Eapol.log
  • Rastls.log
  • Wzcdlg.log
  • Xmlprovi.log
  • Netman.log
  • Netshell.log
Maybe I will write and article about what to look for and how to decifer these log files.

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