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Giftbox
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 Second NIC card won’t stay connected
Dual NICs, Networking, NIC, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Networking
I came in this morning to find my file server down. Must have had a power outage over the week end. It's connected to a UPS that was also down. I found DNS Client was disabled on the server. I set it to Automatic. I have 2 NIC cards but now for some reason I can only have 1 endabled at a time. I am running Server 2003. Does anyone have any thoughts....???

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ASKED: May 10, 2010  7:58 PM
UPDATED: May 12, 2010  1:19 PM
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 Approved Answer - Chosen by carlosdl

Have you reserved the IPs you want on your DHCP server? I would reserve them and then hard set the IPs on the file server to the reserved address. Check your leases and make sure you choose one that is available. Go into the properties of your NICs to set the IP permanently.

ANSWERED:  May 11, 2010  5:17 PM (GMT)  by carlosdl
 
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Hi,

when you check on the device manager does it disable the other network card? What I mean is 1 card active while the other is being disabled.

Last Wiki Answer Submitted:  May 11, 2010  3:23 am  by  jinteik   15,485 pts.
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Is there something in the event logs ?

carlosdl
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No…if I enable both card they just sit there trying to aquire network address…if I only enable one card, it finds the address and connects.

Giftbox
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the event log shows that there is a conflict with another ip address….but there isn’t any duplicate ip address….nothing changed over the weekend

Giftbox
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maybe you can stop DHCP client and fix the IP permanently..

jinteik
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how do I fix the IP permanently…???

Giftbox
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by putting static ip on Both your LAN cards.

but you will have to reserve 2 IP’s on DHCP server…

jinteik
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That did it…..you guys are great….thank you so much.

Giftbox
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