I work in the IT department of a fairly large company with a network of about 120 users and 15 server machines. One of these machines is a gateway to our WAN via a T1 line, which is runing windows 2000 advanced server. Routing and Remote access is set up on this system to route any requests to the WAN to the proper place from within our network. We’ve had a series of power failures recently, with no damage (good apc smart ups systems!), but we did shut down all servers. Whenever this gateway server gets shut down, it seems to have a hard time coming back up properly. I can access the WAN from the gateway machine, but not from any other machine on our network. In the Routing and Remote Access control panel, the things I suspect is the problem is under;
IP Routing – General the “Internal” interface is showing up as “Not available” for an IP Address, and “Non-operational” for the Operational Status.
And under IPX Routing – General, the “Inside NIC” interface is showing up as “Down” forOperational State.
The NIC seems to be working fine as far as the device manager is concerned, but no matter what I do, I can not seem to get this resolved.
Any help and or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.