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Conference decwet::windows-nt

Title:	Windows NT
Notice:	See note 15.0 for HCL location
Moderator:	TARKIN::LIN.com::FOLEY

Created:	Thu Oct 31 1991
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	6086
Total number of notes:	31449

5746.0. "Problem with two network cards" by MARVIN::GOODWIN (Pete Goodwin) Wed Feb 26 1997 00:22

    I have a Celebris 6200 running Windows NT V4.0 Workstation with two
    network cards - one the integral motherboard version, the other a
    seperate DE500. Both appear to use the same DEC DC21X4 Adapter Driver
    when running. (When I installed the DE500, I used the driver supplied
    on the V4.0 CD.)
    
    One card is plugged into one segment, the other will be plugged into
    another (currently its not plugged into anything). However, something
    is amiss as TCP/IP breaks. I can ping numbered nodes in the same
    segment, but I can get out of the segment itself - hence DNS doesn't
    work, so pinging named nodes doesn't work.
    
    Netbeui seems to work fine so I can still other nodes in the same
    domain - it's just TCP/IP that breaks.
    
    To restore TCP/IP I removed the second adapter from network setup.
    Anyone know if this can be made to work?
    
    Pete

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
5746.1	Try these.....	NETRIX::"[email protected]"	James Rose	`Wed Feb 26 1997 07:05`	12
	I've got two things you can try: 1) Disable the currently unattached DE500 in Network Config/Bindings - NT might be getting confused because the card is in your configuration and is not connected to the network 2) Update to the latest DE500 adapter driver - V2.63 - available at ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/adapters/ethernet/de500/interim/ - don't quote me on it, but I believe the driver docs mentioned that upgrading to the latest version fixes some multiple netcard problems when the cards of are different types. [Posted by WWW Notes gateway]
5746.2		MARVIN::GOODWIN	Pete Goodwin	`Wed Feb 26 1997 23:57`	4
	Does it matter that the latest driver appears to be for NT 3.51 and I'm running NT 4? Pete
5746.3	The short answer is - No!	NETCAD::TERPENING	Devon Terpening-Network Adapters	`Tue Mar 04 1997 11:07`	8
	re: .2 No, it does not matter. NT 4.0 has support for both NDIS3 and NDIS4 protocols. By loading the driver originally designed for NT 3.51 you'll be running NDIS3 on your machine. This means you won't be able to take advantage of the improvements offered by NDIS4 -Devon