Losing Static IP address

[Guest Kirrin Jones]

Good Day board,

 

Hope I can get a fix for this. I have a service that acts as my DC, DNS,

DHCP, Exchange server. Now when I enter a static IP address into the

NIC, during the course of the day if I should check back the properties

of the NIC, its set to dynamic. This also happens if I restart the

server, when it comes up it takes a very long time to give me the login

window and when I do log in and check the NIC properties, they are set

to dynamic. Needless to say all or most of the services fail until I

enter the static IP address and then restart the services.

 

Can anyone give me an idea why this is happening?

 

Thanks.

[Guest Lognoul, Marc \(Private\)]

Re: Losing Static IP address

 

I would be tempted to say that you may have a problem with the NIC driver or

with the NIC itself. Do you use teamed adapters?

 

KR,

Marc

 

"Kirrin Jones" <kirrinjones@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:Om6g5L3ZIHA.5348@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

> Good Day board,

>

> Hope I can get a fix for this. I have a service that acts as my DC, DNS,

> DHCP, Exchange server. Now when I enter a static IP address into the NIC,

> during the course of the day if I should check back the properties of the

> NIC, its set to dynamic. This also happens if I restart the server, when

> it comes up it takes a very long time to give me the login window and when

> I do log in and check the NIC properties, they are set to dynamic.

> Needless to say all or most of the services fail until I enter the static

> IP address and then restart the services.

>

> Can anyone give me an idea why this is happening?

>

> Thanks.

[Guest Phillip Windell]

Re: Losing Static IP address

 

Hi Kirrin,

 

I do remember this happening before on some very rare occasions but I don't

remember any solution. Keep trying, maybe someone will remember what was

done with it.

 

--

Phillip Windell

http://www.wandtv.com

 

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,

or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.

-----------------------------------------------------

 

"Kirrin Jones" <kirrinjones@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:Om6g5L3ZIHA.5348@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

> Good Day board,

>

> Hope I can get a fix for this. I have a service that acts as my DC, DNS,

> DHCP, Exchange server. Now when I enter a static IP address into the NIC,

> during the course of the day if I should check back the properties of the

> NIC, its set to dynamic. This also happens if I restart the server, when

> it comes up it takes a very long time to give me the login window and when

> I do log in and check the NIC properties, they are set to dynamic.

> Needless to say all or most of the services fail until I enter the static

> IP address and then restart the services.

>

> Can anyone give me an idea why this is happening?

>

> Thanks.

[Guest Kirrin Jones]

Re: Losing Static IP address

 

No Marc, not using teaming, however, I do have another NIC in the

machine that I'm not using. I'm thinking of activating that NIC and

giving it the IP address of the current NIC and disabling that one and

see what happens. That however will require me to restart the server

which is not something to do on a whim. I will see if there is an update

for the NIC drivers and hope that will help.

 

Lognoul, Marc (Private) wrote:

> I would be tempted to say that you may have a problem with the NIC

> driver or with the NIC itself. Do you use teamed adapters?

>

> KR,

> Marc

>

> "Kirrin Jones" <kirrinjones@gmail.com> wrote in message

> news:Om6g5L3ZIHA.5348@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>> Good Day board,

>>

>> Hope I can get a fix for this. I have a service that acts as my DC,

>> DNS, DHCP, Exchange server. Now when I enter a static IP address into

>> the NIC, during the course of the day if I should check back the

>> properties of the NIC, its set to dynamic. This also happens if I

>> restart the server, when it comes up it takes a very long time to give

>> me the login window and when I do log in and check the NIC properties,

>> they are set to dynamic. Needless to say all or most of the services

>> fail until I enter the static IP address and then restart the services.

>>

>> Can anyone give me an idea why this is happening?

>>

>> Thanks.

>

[Guest Kirrin Jones]

Re: Losing Static IP address

 

Phillip, I sure hope you remember the solution. Check the backup tape of

your brain for those archived information :)

 

Phillip Windell wrote:

> Hi Kirrin,

>

> I do remember this happening before on some very rare occasions but I don't

> remember any solution. Keep trying, maybe someone will remember what was

> done with it.

>

[Guest Phillip Windell]

Re: Losing Static IP address

 

"Kirrin Jones" <kirrinjones@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:OvIwt$PaIHA.5208@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

> No Marc, not using teaming, however, I do have another NIC in the machine

> that I'm not using. I'm thinking of activating that NIC and giving it the

> IP address of the current NIC and disabling that one and see what happens.

> That however will require me to restart the server which is not something

> to do on a whim. I will see if there is an update for the NIC drivers and

> hope that will help.

 

I don't think you will have to reboot. Just be sure to set the old Nic to

Automatic before you disable it. Forcebly do that yourself even though the

nic seems to be doing it on its own.

 

--

Phillip Windell

http://www.wandtv.com

 

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,

or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.

-----------------------------------------------------

[Guest Phillip Windell]

Re: Losing Static IP address

 

The drive needs cleaned and the tape media is decaying with age :-)

 

Maybe you could find something letting Google search the News groups.

http://groups.google.com/

 

I tried

http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=server+loosing+static+ip+settings+dhcp

but I didn't see anything specific.

 

Maybe trying differnt search parameters will help, like spelling "losing"

properly like I didn't do. After correcting that I still didn't see

anything conclusive, but there might be something buried in the results

somewhere.

 

--

Phillip Windell

http://www.wandtv.com

 

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,

or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.

-----------------------------------------------------

[Guest Kirrin Jones]

Re: Losing Static IP address

 

I know that the tape starts to show signs of wear and tear and stress

after awhile. Thanks going at it now.

 

Phillip Windell wrote:

> The drive needs cleaned and the tape media is decaying with age :-)

>

> Maybe you could find something letting Google search the News groups.

> http://groups.google.com/

>

> I tried

> http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=server+loosing+static+ip+settings+dhcp

> but I didn't see anything specific.

>

> Maybe trying differnt search parameters will help, like spelling "losing"

> properly like I didn't do. After correcting that I still didn't see

> anything conclusive, but there might be something buried in the results

> somewhere.

>