Experienced an issue with an NT server that we have had for years that has been working without issue. The Server was origninally created by vendor and it had static IP addresses outside our local LAN on both NICs. The NICs appear to have originally been teamed (fault tolerant) at our local site with a local LAN address that was statically assigned to the Team. Only one NIC was used in the team and the second NIC was never plugged in yet it still maintained its original static IP. We could ping the team ip, the app was fine and all has been good for a very long time. Connectivity to the app was lost after the server rebooted recently. After the reboot, we noticed the Team was disolved and the original static IP address for NIC 1 changed back to the original address when we first got the server from the outside source. We changed the NIC 1 IP back to our LAN ip, reteamed the NIC and the device was pingable but the app still did not work. We discovered that putting back the original static IP that came from the vendor, rebooting, and then recreating the team and assigning the local LAN static IP corrected the issue. I am not sure why the orignal static IP from the vendor was still assigned to the physical nic and was since corrected only after we brought it back to original state and then re-teamed. Secondly, the only thing that was done immediately prior to all this was that I was reviewing the adapter and protocol settings tabs (not changing anything)and then clicked okay out of the networking window. I know NT is a bit flaky in that I have seen by just reviewing these settings often causes the rebinding of protocols progress bar to appear after you click okay and present you with a "restart for changes to take affect" message. I don't know if this is related but I don't think it is a coincidence. They are related but I don't know how. Thank you, /paul

Is there a question in there? Might have better luck requesting Justin delete this post, and you can repost in the Networking Forum (if you're asking for help with that part of this.) Life's more painless for the brainless.