Server internal IP Address

[Salesman0Gil]

Hello All

I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this.

I am running Server 11 Advance, on a Win 2008 server. The server has two network cards. One network card is set for 192.168.2.x and the other 192.168.21.x. This needs to be this way for some security work the server does.

Since the restart of the machine, it grabbed the IP address of 192.168.21.1, instead of the assigned 192.168.2.10. Now the .21 network does not really have a structure (no DNS no router etc.)

I need the server to use the other network card. Is there a way to accomplish this?

Thanks

[Wim Decorte]

Disable the NIC that has 21.1 before the restart, re-enable it after the restart and after you confirmed that FMS is running properly.

What kind of security work is that FMS box doing?

[Salesman0Gil]

I will give it a try, when I can restart the machine. Not something easily accomplished.

The box is also the server for our security camera system.

[Steven H. Blackwell]

The box is also the server for our security camera system.

Ouch! That's not a good practice at all.

Steven

[Salesman0Gil]

I understand that it is not ideal, but it is what had to be. The box can handle it has more then enough resources, and some still to spare.

[Wim Decorte]

It's not a machine resource issue (although sometimes it can be). You're clearly hindered by having the other task on the server. A restart of the video camera stuff will interrupt your users and vice versa.

You're not able to attend quickly to any FMS emergency because of the other task and so on. At the end of the day all these factors can add up costing you more than the price of an entry-level dedicated server...

In addition there is the risk that something in the software just plain breaks FMS functionality.

[Salesman0Gil]

I understand what you are saying. If there is an emergency I can restart, that is not a problem.

The FMS is actually harder to restart, because it now hosts our internal time clock. The security stuff is not as mission critical.

Also, I am very very careful of any software incompatiblies that may happen. This machine will only run these two things ever.