2nd ethernet card issue

[spaceyjoe2020]

Hi,

I have an issue with my 2nd ethernet card. I have 1 onboard nic and the
other one is a pci.
I use the pci ethernet card for my my private lan and the onboard is
for public.{which it used to get to the internet}

But for unknown reason the 2 nic has it lights on but when pressing
internet explorer it doesnt go the site /any sites for that matter. The
way i current get it to work is to disable and enable and after a few
minutes it stops working again. And I'd do the samething again.

Anyone know a reason? What can do to fix?

Thanks
Joe

 

[Rod Speed]

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I have an issue with my 2nd ethernet card.
I have 1 onboard nic and the other one is a pci.

I use the pci ethernet card for my my private lan and the
onboard is for public.{which it used to get to the internet}

Why do you do it like that ?

But for unknown reason the 2 nic has it lights on but when pressing
internet explorer it doesnt go the site /any sites for that matter.
The way i current get it to work is to disable and enable and after a
few minutes it stops working again. And I'd do the samething again.

Anyone know a reason?

Most likely the system is getting confused about
which nic should be used for access to the internet.

What can do to fix?

Just use one nic. Why do you want to use two ?

It can be done, but not easily with a more primitive OS like 98.

 

[kony]

Hi,

I have an issue with my 2nd ethernet card. I have 1 onboard nic and the
other one is a pci.

Does this mean the PCI card is the "2nd" one in the
following paragraphs?

I use the pci ethernet card for my my private lan and the onboard is
for public.{which it used to get to the internet}

Now it looks like the onboard is #2.

But for unknown reason the 2 nic has it lights on but when pressing
internet explorer it doesnt go the site /any sites for that matter.

This issue is why my above question matters.

The
way i current get it to work is to disable and enable and after a few
minutes it stops working again. And I'd do the samething again.

Had you previously used the system for Internet access with
only one (the other) NIC installed?

Go into Networking Properties, and there may be an advanced
menu (in the text bar) that allows setting priority for the
NICS. After setting that, try using the Internet Connection
Wizard.

If that doesn't work, you may need to clear out all the NIC
info from Networking properties, remove from Device Manager,
uninstall from Add/Remove programs, and first install the
NIC for your internet use.

On the other hand, none of the above may matter, it is
curious that it works then stops working. Perhaps the
cable/connector/whatever isn't mechanically fit? Do the
link lights indicate it's ok when it starts failing? Is it
possible that the system power management had kicked in and
the NIC didn't wake up properly and thus wouldn't work till
right after the system rebooted?

 

[spaceyjoe2020]

Rod,

Why I have 2 nic is becusse when I added the public ip to the onboard
and set it so that the public was "1" it keept turning itself and I
dont see any reason why it should. Only wasy to fx it was to diable and
enable the onboard nic.
So I think I can have 2 nic. onboard nic to handle the agent updates to
the clients and the other pci nic to download it from the internet.

Ok thanks Rod for the info.

Joe

 

[spaceyjoe2020]

Kony,

The PCi card was the 2nd nic card.
The lights are blinking.
I changed the perference around.
It only seems to work[for a while] I would have to disable and enable
to nic to make it work.

These nic are pretty old. It's being used on w2kserver. I've updated
and tried the tricks I know.

I dont why it the nic goes to sleep. Let me know if you guys think of
something else to try

Thanks
Joe

 

[Rod Speed]

Why I have 2 nic is becusse when I added the public ip to
the onboard and set it so that the public was "1" it keept
turning itself and I dont see any reason why it should. Only
wasy to fx it was to diable and enable the onboard nic.

Thats just plain wrong, you can do it fine with just one nic.

So I think I can have 2 nic. onboard nic to handle the agent updates
to the clients and the other pci nic to download it from the internet.

Yes, its possible, but not with the cruder OSs, not easily anyway.

 

[spaceyjoe2020]

rod,

yea i know i can do it with 1 nic. the client i'm on right one uses 1
nic with 2 diff ips[one private and 1 public]
i tried this on the w2kserver and it just doesnt work as good as it
works on windows xp.

 

[Alanz]

I have an issue with my 2nd ethernet card. I have 1 onboard nic and the

other one is a pci.
I use the pci ethernet card for my my private lan and the onboard is
for public.{which it used to get to the internet}

But for unknown reason the 2 nic has it lights on but when pressing
internet explorer it doesnt go the site /any sites for that matter. The
way i current get it to work is to disable and enable and after a few
minutes it stops working again. And I'd do the samething again.

Anyone know a reason? What can do to fix?

I had the exactly same configuration - two ethernet interfaces one
onboard and the other one in the PCI slot. And i faced the exact same
problem. Was tired of enabling-disabling it every other hour.
Then i threw out the PCI one - life has been cool since then.

 

[spaceyjoe2020]

Yea that's simple enough

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I had the exactly same configuration - two ethernet interfaces one
onboard and the other one in the PCI slot. And i faced the exact same
problem. Was tired of enabling-disabling it every other hour.
Then i threw out the PCI one - life has been cool since then.