Network connectivity problem

I have two servers which communicate with each other over a T1. ServerA
intermittently loses communication with serverB. I can re-establish the
connection by rebooting serverA. But serverA never has a problem
communicating with any other server, just serverB.

So the users call me up and say it's doing it again. I told them to hold
off rebooting until I can look at serverB. Sure enough, serverB cannot ping
serverA. It can, however ping serverA's gateway (192.168.75.253). I have
someone run a tracert from serverA to serverB and the first line is
192.168.75.254. But shouldn't that have been 253?

So I have them reboot serverA and communication is reestablished. I have
them do another tracert and now the 1st line has the ip host address of
253! What is going on? Before the reboot it was trying to route through
254 and after a reboot it goes back to the proper 253. Would made it
change? Is there a problem with 253 so that it has to defer to 254?

Thanks,
DaveL

could be a flaky net card, or is this through a router and internet
connection or IC sharing...???

What is changing the address is DHCP is assinging a new addy if it cant get
through the other one.. try using static addys for a while and see what
happens

KK

"DaveL" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have two servers which communicate with each other over a T1. ServerA
> intermittently loses communication with serverB. I can re-establish the
> connection by rebooting serverA. But serverA never has a problem
> communicating with any other server, just serverB.
>
> So the users call me up and say it's doing it again. I told them to hold
> off rebooting until I can look at serverB. Sure enough, serverB cannot
ping
> serverA. It can, however ping serverA's gateway (192.168.75.253). I have
> someone run a tracert from serverA to serverB and the first line is
> 192.168.75.254. But shouldn't that have been 253?
>
> So I have them reboot serverA and communication is reestablished. I have
> them do another tracert and now the 1st line has the ip host address of
> 253! What is going on? Before the reboot it was trying to route through
> 254 and after a reboot it goes back to the proper 253. Would made it
> change? Is there a problem with 253 so that it has to defer to 254?
>
> Thanks,
> DaveL
>