Help!!!! ROFL how many have we seen of those lately???

the PIX and 2600 belong the the parent company as well as the T1 link. That's the demarc point between the parent company and child company. The parent company doesn't want to spend the $$ to reconfigure the 2600 and PIX so the W2003 box will work. The W2003 box belongs to the child company. The parent company says the NT box and W2003 box aren't their so they won't mess with it.

So, I've gone in, taken the NT box off the network, configured the W2003 Box with the same TCP/IP settings as the NT box and it won't get to the internet. Put the NT box back on the network [changing the W2003 box TCP/IP settings to a different addressi] and volia internet connection on the w2003 box.

So I figured ICS must be running but the NT box has only 1 NIC.

pretty stumped at this point.

clients go to the gateway which is the 2600 but again, they shouldn't lose internet connectivity simply because the NT box is offline but they do.

The NT4 box is running ISA. ICS requires two NICs. One two be the LAN side and one to be the WAN side.

BTW, you were fast on that reply!

and yeah quick reply...been going though the discussion threads...

Feeling thumb happy?

provided with that clunky old kernel.

not sure how to get the NT box off the network and the W2003 going... seems as if the 2600 doesn't like anything but the NT box and I've no way of looking at the 2600 running config.

Maybe a complete tear down and rebuild is in order?

but can't figure out how to get internet connectivity for all devices with the NT box out of there since we can't get into the 2600 or the PIX.

I don't recall the exact procedure, but it involves rebooting the device and breaking out of the boot process, changing some register, and then changing the enable password and such. You may be able to find this info if you google for it, as it's public information. It's quite possible as well that the NT4 box is running MS Proxy Server, but it's been too long since I touched something with that much cobweb buildup on it.

There might be a way to get into it.

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/63/2600_architecture_23852.html

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps259/products_password_recovery09186a0080094675.shtml

that's not owned by the company.

it's a weird setup. The parent company provides the internet access to this child company but other than that, is pretty much hands off. However, they have said they will not buy new equipment [e.g. Cisco router or firewall nor reconfigure it for us].

I've mentioned to the child company manager to just get his own DSL line and he's thinking about it but of course with all businesses, cost is a problem and he does have internet connectivity just no way to upgrade his old NT box.

this working for them if you can't touch the equipment and they're being a bunch of stubborn pricks about buying new Cisco hardware? Who are these dillweeds anyway?

remember that one. Dillweed.

What a beauty!

but it's the problem this customer has. Seeing how he's had a bunch of other IT guys in also scratching their heads, he's call us in.

I've configured the W2003 server with the same addressing as the NT server[unplugging the NT server's cable]so there's not a duplicate address on the network and everyone loses their internet connection. So that sorta made me think the NT box is acting as a router itself or a proxy [but didn't look for MS Proxy server 2.0 software.

It's a weird setup.

don't envy your position. At the moment you are between a rock and a hard place.

Perhaps they'll be able to psychically work on the equipment without touching it through their use of voodoo magic.

Call me now for you free psychic IT reading.

you can't imagine how many places I've gone to where the Geek Squad was previously there.

It seems that they've really paired down their consumer and small business on site support services though.

They may be A+ certified and such, but they are not common sense and business logic certified. Some of the things I've seen them do made me wonder if they were human or a bunch of chimps wacking away at the PC with a large wooden stick.

I swear, the people they hire are the same, shall we say "kids", that are the local computer geek guy that lives down the street and frequently "fix" the neighbor's computer. They know a bunch of hacks and convince people they've done their best to "fix" it for them. But, the problem is still there. It's just not visible any longer... or worse, all of their precious photo's disappeared shortly after the "kid" said.... OOOPS!

It'll give you a picture of what's acting as a DHCP server and what's going where in terms of traffic and such. Download WireShark and install it on your laptop. It's free and works just as well, if not better than Sniffer.

well haven't sniffed packets...

didn't want to spend a lot of effort on this little project [billable time vs affordability] if it was an easy fix.

appears it's not.

and not near enough to the company to check out.