Compaq DL380 G3 Compatibility Issues With Windows 2003 - Networking Blues

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I'm having issues with a DL 380 G3 Running Windows 2003. The services
that are currently running is Exchange 2003, Blackberry and
pcAnywhere.

The system itself seems to have intermittent issues with ANY NIC
seeing the firewall. The system is assigned a static IP and is
connected directly to the firewall with a crossover.

The intermittent issues is that sometimes the NIC port will see the
firewall & sometimes not. When it does see it, it drops after 4 hours
and maybe after a reboot. When running ping or tracert from command
prompt, I immediately get *Hardware Error*.

I'm having a very hard time isolating the issue. If I move the cable
over the the 2nd onboard NIC port, it may work while port 1 doesn't.
If I reboot, it may be vice versa. To rule this out, I installed a
another NIC card in the machine and it still exhibits the same
symptoms.

It's not the firewall or cables as both are brand new and I have
replaced them with another Brand new one out of the box and the
problem still persists. Firmware/drivers on the system and firewall
are all up to date. I've played around changing the speeds on both
NIC/Firewall to 10/half/full with no change in the issue.

The firewall that have been tried is a Sonicwall Pro 100 and also a
Tele3 TZ

Has anyone ever seen this bewildering problem.
Any advice or insight you can give would be greatly appreciated.
 
I know this sounds strange, but try this...

Remove the cross over cable and plug the nic and the fw into a little mini
hub/switch etc. I have seen this same issue where the Windows 2000/2003
Media Detection will show some strange behavior with a cross over cable. No
rhyme or reason, but this always worked and the issues went away. This also
allows you have to another segment you can test from it you need to :)

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Best regards,
Brian Oakes, MCSE
Microsoft Product Support
Windows 2000 Server Networking Team

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We had very similar problems. Try setting the NIC to 100 full instead of
auto auto. Modern switches and NICs sometimes don't like to decide.

Fred
 
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