Cant see network

[jspurr]

Hey, i have just installed a Intel Pro 1000 network card in my dell server. i have another network card in there already. i am running win 2k server with AD and some information on my adapters: the org network card ip address is 192.168.2.3 the default gw is 192.168.2.4(soho) and dns is the 2.3 address

i want the new intel card to be able to access and see the network just as if nothing has changed but when i setup the new gigabit card i used the following information : ip address: 192.168.2.6
default gateway is 192.168.2.4 (the soho)
and the DNS is 192.168.2.3

Now the interesting part is i get a ip address from my dhcp server on the clients machine but on the network status for the 1000 card it shows packets being sent but none recieved. also on the clients machine it shows no packets being recieved as well. i cant ping anything on the client machine. even sometimes as i just noticed i now have a 169 so something is not right

does any one have any ideas/suggestions?
thanks!

 

[FaiTHLeSS]

the 169 range is the default by MS given to clients when they cant contact the DHCP server. I would check that your DHCP server is up and running and is also auth'ed to start leasing IP. Check the event logs. If you cant find anything here wrong try assigning static address to a client to see if it can ping the server. Also can you ping your gateway or DNS server?

 

[BBGCORP]

The same exact thing happened to me when I enabled a second NIC on my server. I had to break down and call Microsoft, and they told me on a DC you should only have 1 NIC because the services will bind to a specific NIC. When you add the second one, it screws everything up as it did on mine. Once I disabled the second NIC, everything was working properly again. You may want to decide which one you want to utilize and disable the other.

 

[FaiTHLeSS]

You could also change the bindings for each of the services, by going to the properties of each of the different services and bind them to both or 1 of the cards of your choosing. Might be time consuming depending on how many services you have.