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Pinging a computer redirects the ping back to this computer?

Asked by JimR123b in Windows Networking, Microsoft Windows Operating Systems

Tags: Microsoft, Windows, Vista / XP

I've recently bought a new iPhone 3G, and so have had to install the latest version of iTunes on my desktop computer.

As well as my desktop computer (running Vista Ultimate x32), I have a "media server" which is basically a normal PC running Windows XP Professional.

I am using a BT Home Hub as my wireless router. Both my server and my desktop are connected to a wireless bridge, which in turn is connected to my wireless router.

The problem is this...

Since installing iTunes on my desktop computer, I have had intermittent problems with accessing my server from my desktop PC. I don't know if it's iTunes causing the problem, but it seemed to happen immediately after installing iTunes.

If I try pinging the server by entering "ping 192.168.1.75" at a command-line prompt. Strangely, the result is something like:

Pinging 192.168.1.75 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.80: Time out
Reply from 192.168.1.80: Time out
Reply from 192.168.1.80: Time out

That's not exactly the message that comes up, as I can't remember exactly what it says, but hopefully you get the point... I ask it to ping 192.168.1.75, and it instead pings 192.168.1.80, it seems.

I should probably point out that 192.168.1.75 is the server, and 192.168.1.80 is the desktop. So, when trying to ping the server from the desktop, the desktop actually tries to ping itself! It seems as if something is intercepting the IP address, and diverting it back to the computer its running on!

There's two things that puzzle me:

1. Why is my ping to .75 diverted to .80?
2. Why does it fail to ping .80 when that is the computer I am pinging from?

Can anybody please tell me what is going on?!?

Please feel free to ask questions about my setup, if you like. Many thanks for any help...
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