New 2003 R2 server with ping/network issues..

I recently purchased a new Dell server with Win 2003 R2 pre-installed. The
server seems to be operating fine with one exception, that now has a 3rd
party app not working properly.


You cannot ping the server's IP address from any machine on the network, it
just times out. You can ping the server by name and it responds just fine.

I need to be able to ping by IP as well and cannot seem to make this work.
Windows Firewall is not even turned on.

Is there something that R2 does to limit this or something?

All my other 2003 servers can be pinged by name or IP and respond just fine.


Any ideas?

Thanks

Mike

That does not make any sense. The network level functions do not
understand names at all. If you ping by name, the name must be resolved to
an IP address before the packets are sent. If you said you could ping by IP
but not by name, that would make sense. It would be a name resolution
problem.

Mike P wrote:
> I recently purchased a new Dell server with Win 2003 R2
> pre-installed. The server seems to be operating fine with one
> exception, that now has a 3rd party app not working properly.
>
>
> You cannot ping the server's IP address from any machine on the
> network, it just times out. You can ping the server by name and it
> responds just fine.
> I need to be able to ping by IP as well and cannot seem to make this
> work. Windows Firewall is not even turned on.
>
> Is there something that R2 does to limit this or something?
>
> All my other 2003 servers can be pinged by name or IP and respond
> just fine.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike