Hi everyone, This is my first post and I appreciate everyone in here that can help me. My problem is, I built a home network consiting of 6 pc's. I decided to separate them into two networks and control them both by using server2003 and use server2003 as the router between them. These are the steps I performed. -inserted 2 network cards in server2003. -used static ips for both lans one network 10.0.0.0 and the other 192.168.0.0 -enabled the router software on the server. -I created static routes in the routing table. The problem Im have is....I can't get both network cards going at the same time. Lets called network cards A, and B. When I plug in A its enabled and the light is on and every thing is good. I could ping other pc's on that network. I plug in B and it says its unpluged when it isn't. So I unpluged A and then B works and I could ping other pc's on that network. So I know both cards work. They just don't work at the same time both ethernet cables are pluged together. I never seen this before. I check IRQ's and they are not the same. I check network connections and it says they are both working fine. In Device manger they are installed ok. Anyone have any suggestions how to correct this... thanks for your help ahead of time. soda
Wow, that is very odd. I would suspect it is a problem in the router configuration in Server 2003. You seem pretty knowledgeable so you very well may have tried this but I'll say it anyways. Open the Routing and Remote Access MMC and make sure both interfaces are configured properly under IP Routing > General Also, you may have problems with DHCP. I don't know about setting up multiple DHCP servers on one machine (I also don't even know if you're trying to use DHCP at all). If you are trying to use it I might try disabling it. Finally, unless you are using Server 2003 for other server functions (which I would assume you are) I would try Sonicwall. It is a Linux router distribution which makes this type of configuration extremely easy.
Sonicwall is a proprietary embedded firewall that is based on FreeBSD, and is somewhat pricey. Maybe you meant Smoothwall? In that case, I'd recommend IPCop, pfSense, or Untangle instead.
