Re: IP Helper Crash

(cross-post added to Vista Perf & Maint)
"Morose" <Morose@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F5057926-15E7-4E0C-92B2-70A5A6FEC568@microsoft.com...

> Hi all,
>
> Out of the blue I now have a recurrent crash of the IP Helper service. It's
> completely random,

> and happens after having Internet Explorer running for a while.

Not really a good enough reason to be asking for help about this
in the IE NG. Try a Vista NG instead. Cross-posting for convenience...


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>
> I'm running Vista Ultimate, and as far as I can tell everything continues to
> run fine after the crash (although internet explorer loses some of it's
> visual effects - the tabs look different for instance) but I'm none the less
> concerned over a service that repeatedly stops running.
>
> I've read somewhere that IP helper has a lot to do with IPv6, which is
> turned off in the settings for my network adaptor (I was having problems with
> wireless authentication so i disabled IPv6 following some advice).
>
> Does anybody have any ideas why IP helper keeps falling over and how I might
> go about fixing it? Do I need to be worried about it failing? Does it leave
> my PC vulnerable?
>
> TIA
>
> Martin