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server died, any help? (updated & rant)

Keego

Keego

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Update:
Looks like it was the *&@&*(^@^$ router the whole time, I plugged my laptop in, no go, blamed the wire, plugged laptop into different (shorter) cat 5 cord, no go, turned on DHCP on the router, and bam it works. Of course, that means that I can't route ANY ports besides the DMZ :| :| :|

dlink has a way better way of going about things in their setup. The hostname can get it's own IP, in linksys's case, they just plain suck.




orig msg:
For some reason, the networking portion of my server went kaput. I was VNC'ing in and it suddenly disconnected, I couldn't ftp/http/telnet, etc so I cycled the power (no monitor) and nothing happened (it rebooted but I still couldn't get into it) so I plugged in a monitor today and everything worked fine 'cept the network, I can't ping anything, not even the router. So I remove the nics in Device Manager, reboot, nothing helps, so I format, and the same thing, only it's weird, I can see the computers in the workgroup, but I can't ping them, nor can I ping the router still. How the heck is it getting their names if nothing can ping it!!

specs in sig, 2x onboard intel based nics 🙁
 
What protocols are you running? If you are have NetBEUI you will see other computers. Could your TCP stack be hosed? Have you tried pinging the loopback address?

Windogg
 
Just TCP/IP on all computers, the network cord is fine, I can ping loopback (127.0.0.1) and it's static IP just fine.
 
well i thought tcp/ip stack til you said you reinstalled your os.. you did attempt to use the network before you installed any other software right? I would try another nic, your's maybe having problems, especially from seeing that it knows the hostnames but ping is broken (since u reinstalled its not cached) .. so ya try another nic .. good luck ..
-neural
 
I've tried both nics onbaord, I'd have to buy another to test another one, but if that's what it takes (and it looks like it's at that point now)
 
when people say server .. they always mean totally different things, everyone has a "server" .. and all that.. the "server" we have at work (dell poweredge1300) has a floppy .. pretty standard .. eh but i dunno, you could install dos on the hd heh.. but anyway rh will work fine, good luck ..
-neural
 
well, on a whim I tried XP (even though it doesn't have a built in DHCP server) but it still does not work. sigh. Off to *nix land I go!
 
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