First off, you cannot have two default gateways. This goes against the TCP/IP standard. You are causing more problems than what you are trying to resolve. Why not do NAT traversal on your firewall so that some External IP gets translated to your Internal MF server? This would bypass the whole requirement for what you have explained? "because we also have ICA async dial-in on these servers" This isn't a reason to have a dual-homed NIC machine. I assume by this statement, you have actual Modem users that dial-in, correct? Chris -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adam.Baum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 8:27 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] OT - Where are NIC bindings? I have one MF server that seems to lose its way. It is dual NICd with one NIC connected to my Intranet, the other to the Internet. For some reason, every now and then the server will not be able to find my internal network. Both NICs have default gateways. If I remove the default gateway for the external NIC, acces the missing resource, and then add the gateway back in, all works well. That is until I reboot. Why do I have two default gateways, when one would work just fine? Well, people use this set of servers for remote access so all the ICA info must go out to the external NIC. However, we allow people to browse the Internet from these servers and we filter (Websense). This requires that all Internet (port 80) traffic go through our Proxy servers which require them to go out the Internal facing NIC. Why can't people just browse the internet since they are attaching via the Internet? Good question. Answer: because we also have ICA async dial-in on these servers. It all boils down to this: the wayward server has its NICs backwards. Port 1 is Internal, port 2 is external. All the other servers in this farm have it set the opposite. So instead of re-wiring (which would make me get off my butt), I would rather just change the binding order and see if it solves the problem. My question is: where in W2K do you change binding order? adam ******************************************************** This Week's Sponsor - Emergent Online Essential Thin Client Utilities. Meet Jim Kenzig of thethin.net at the Emergent Online Booth #24 at Citrix iForum on October 13th. http://www.go-eol.com ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thethin.net/links.cfm New! Online Thin Computing Magazine Site http://www.OnDemandAccess.com For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm ******************************************************** This Week's Sponsor - Emergent Online Essential Thin Client Utilities. Meet Jim Kenzig of thethin.net at the Emergent Online Booth #24 at Citrix iForum on October 13th. http://www.go-eol.com ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thethin.net/links.cfm New! Online Thin Computing Magazine Site http://www.OnDemandAccess.com For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm