Multihomed W2K for backup internet access

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I have a W2K box with 2 NICS. IP addresses are on different networks. 1 NIC is connected to an Internet router. The other one to a different internet router. The reason for this is to have the second NIC as a backup internet access in case the first one is inaccesible due to ISP problems.

The idea is to be able to access the machine from the internet via 2 different IP addresses. Things work fine for some time but after a few hours (2 to 8 hours) one of the NICs stops responding until I disable and enable it.

Both NICs have static IP addresses and each NIC has one of the routers as default gateways.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance
Jos
 
any errors on event viewer? also posting ipconfig /all may help when no
responding.

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Jos said:
I have a W2K box with 2 NICS. IP addresses are on different networks. 1
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NIC is connected to an Internet router. The other one to a different
internet router. The reason for this is to have the second NIC as a backup
internet access in case the first one is inaccesible due to ISP problems.
The idea is to be able to access the machine from the internet via 2
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different IP addresses. Things work fine for some time but after a few hours
(2 to 8 hours) one of the NICs stops responding until I disable and enable
it.
 
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