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Network driver strangeness

I've been writing a network driver for OS X and have come across something rather odd.

My driver works just fine for 99% of the apps out there. The 1% that don't happen to be Internet Explorer and Apple's Airport Admin Utility.

The symptom in Explorer is that you can't connect to the internal web-based admin page on the home router I'm running on. This page works under the exact same configuration just fine with IE if another network driver is used and also works with my driver with any other web browser. Attempts, so far, to trace any difference in traffic haven't come up with any useful information. Ethereal on an independent machine and tcpdump on the local machine seem to confirm that all traffic is getting through as it should, but IE seems to get a premature disconnect about 85% of the time.

The issue with the Airport Admin utility are about the same. Much of the time, you can't see the hub in a scan for base stations and most of the times where you can, you can't get it to correctly login and bring up the admin window. You simply get nothing in a scan or an not very descriptive message about how there was a connection failure.

I suspect both programs suffer the exact same issue. Has anyone out there seen anything similar to this before? Anyone have any suggestions on what to be looking for or what might be worth trying to get this solved?

Thanks in advance,

Rob McKeever
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