

Basically, you just need to uncheck two options under the Local Area Connection for the Unidentified Network and let the actual network connection function. At this point your internet will look as if its disconnected, but all you have to do is click on the red cross which will be between Network and Internet or right click on Network icon on the system try and click on Troubleshoot problems. Click on OK and come back to the "Open Network and Sharing center" Uncheck Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IP) and Version 4 (TCP/IP) You will now see Local Area Connection status, click on Properties.***

You will have to click on the Local Area Connection for the Unidentified Network. There, you will see two networks namely, Network (Home Network) and Unidentified Network and right in front of them will be their respective local area connections. Select "Open Network and Sharing center" Right click the Network icon on the system tray. I have a workaround if you are willing to try every time you restart the system : These two options are possibly more 'correct'.Off late, this has been happening to me too. One more possibility, is to set the gatway to 127.0.0.1. You could also try changing the subnet mask at both ends to 255.255.255.255, which places both hosts on separate subnets, which causes all packets to be directed to their respective gateway address'. By setting the gateway to the far end of the wire, the source address in the arp reply matches that of the configured gateway. I haven't bothered to put a protocol sniffer on it yet, but I presume the Windows host is directing an arp request at the configured gateway address and when it does not get a reply from the gateway, it closes down the interface to deter 'man-in-the-middle' address spoofing. 'Unidentified Network,' is one of those interesting choices. Microsoft have made some interesting (as in odd) design choices when it comes to TCP/IP. what's the idea ? can you explain me what i just did ?

the 2nd one works(no matter that it's still written unidentified network), but why.
