2 Network cards, 1 needs diable and enable to work

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I have 2 NIC in W2k Server. One for cable broadband, the other for LAN. When I boot up I have to disable the LAN NIC and then renable it for remote computers to route from it to other NIC card. Routing works fine, and as long as I don't have to reboot the server everything is ok. What would cause me to have to disable/enable my LAN NIC card to get everything to work? Disabling/enabling the broadband NIC doesn't make a difference. I am using DHCP and DNS for my internal lan

Thanks for any help you can bive me.
 
I have 2 NIC in W2k Server. One for cable broadband, the other for
LAN. When I boot up I have to disable the LAN NIC and then renable it
for remote computers to route from it to other NIC card. Routing
works fine, and as long as I don't have to reboot the server
everything is ok. What would cause me to have to disable/enable my
LAN NIC card to get everything to work? Disabling/enabling the
broadband NIC doesn't make a difference. I am using DHCP and DNS for
my internal lan.

Thanks for any help you can bive me.
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More info ?

NIC1- For broadband, to a router or directly to the cable modem ?
for remote computers to route from it to other NIC card.
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Remote computers = LAN computers ?

Can you supply IP info ?

DS
 
NIC 1 goes direct to cable modem. NIC 2 goes to hub. NIC 2 has a statically configured IP address and DNS address, this is on my DNS server. The server is also running DHCP, which my clients use to get their IP addresses. NIC 1, connected direct to cable modem, is getting it's IP address and info from the cable company
 
Check the bindingorder in Network connections, advanced, advanced and make
sure the internal nic is on top.
You would do better to give the external nic a static IP. Make sure only
TCP/IP is bound to your external nic.
DNS on both nics should *only* point to your server-IP.

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Regards,

Marina
Microsoft SBS-MVP

lmartz said:
I have 2 NIC in W2k Server. One for cable broadband, the other for LAN.
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When I boot up I have to disable the LAN NIC and then renable it for remote
computers to route from it to other NIC card. Routing works fine, and as
long as I don't have to reboot the server everything is ok. What would
cause me to have to disable/enable my LAN NIC card to get everything to
work? Disabling/enabling the broadband NIC doesn't make a difference. I am
using DHCP and DNS for my internal lan.
 
I have changed to order of which NIC is bound first. I gave my external NIC (one attached to cable modem) a static IP address (my own), and set its DNS server IP address to the IP address of the DNS server on my network, but for some reason I cannot connect to the internet now from this server now (which is my DNS server), even with pinging.
 
Can you post the ipconfig/all please?

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Regards,

Marina
Microsoft SBS-MVP

lmartz said:
I have changed to order of which NIC is bound first. I gave my external
Click to expand...
NIC (one attached to cable modem) a static IP address (my own), and set its
DNS server IP address to the IP address of the DNS server on my network, but
for some reason I cannot connect to the internet now from this server now
(which is my DNS server), even with pinging.
 
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