Completely confused

[watts3000]

I have 3 computers on my home network. One workstation running 2000 professional. One domain controller running advanced server, and another server that runs as a web server and a sql database server. The machine that runs as the web and database server is a dell poweredge server with 868 ram 20 gig western digital harddrive 1.13 tulatin p3 and a built intel nic. I use a cable modem that is connected to a befsr41 version 2 linksys router. The poweredge server has a serious issuse when it is connected to the network this machine takes literally about 15 minutes to get up and after I enter my password it takes another 15 to 20 minutes to bring up the desktop. When the system is not connected to the network everything responds normally. I've changed out cat 5 cables but that did not work. I then tried a 3com nic and disabled the onboard nic that did not help same results again logs on fine when not connected but takes forever when plugged into network. I went out and bought a linksys switch for trouble shooting purposes. When I installed it everything responded as normal but after I formatted the drive and reinstalled windows 2000 server the same problem started up again. I called dell tech support they say that its a network issuse and not the server. Can someone please hel me with this problem I don't know what else to do. Also I did check the event logs in 2k but eveything seemed normal. I also uplinked the switch to the router strangely enough after I remove the the uplink between the swich and the router it performed perfertly. Also my domain name is stephens.dns2go.com that is a actual name I used that for my lan domain name and also it is my real domain name to my website. But then again I have my own dns server and I'ne set it to resolve to the local dns server.

 

[Buddha Bart]

network connections always add a fair chunk of time on bootup (certianly not 15 min though).

Sometimes if the NIC is looking for DHCP service, it'll stall a long time before timing out (still not 15min).

Your ethernet driver is probably good an borked, or you actually are running some sort of DHCP service thats half broken and confusing the card badly.

bart

 

[watts3000]

I've noticed something else about this problem the 2k pro boxes are also connecting to the network slower. If I remove the uplink between the switch and the router everything operates as normal. Also I setup an extra computer has a 2000 server box last night for testing put it on the network and the same problem happened. System comes up extermely slow when connected to network but performs as normal when uplink is removed from switch. I have a friend who just got a new linksys router I'm going to test it out with his router today.

 

[Rhi]

Is DHCP enabled on the router AND the server? Might be a conflict between which is supposed to assign IP's.

-Rhi