Possible bad NIC?

[The other Mike]

Not sure if this is a Win2000 hardware, software or firewall issue.

Have 4 servers connected to an HP switch which is behind a Netscreen
5XP firewall with an unlimited connection license. 3 of the servers
are fine accessing Internet sites. 1 server results in approx 7 out
of 8 ping attempts to Internet addresses failing (DNS lookup
succeeds). Doing a tracert shows successful hops up until the inside
firewall interface...then it starts failing (but approx 1 out of every
8 succeeds so it's not a policy on the firewall blocking anything).
Also, from the problem server, pinging any server on the internal
network results in 100% success. Any server internal or external can
ping the problem server with 100% success. Can a bad nic cause
something as selective as this?? Any other ideas?

 

[philo]

Not sure if this is a Win2000 hardware, software or firewall issue.

Have 4 servers connected to an HP switch which is behind a Netscreen
5XP firewall with an unlimited connection license. 3 of the servers
are fine accessing Internet sites. 1 server results in approx 7 out
of 8 ping attempts to Internet addresses failing (DNS lookup
succeeds). Doing a tracert shows successful hops up until the inside
firewall interface...then it starts failing (but approx 1 out of every
8 succeeds so it's not a policy on the firewall blocking anything).
Also, from the problem server, pinging any server on the internal
network results in 100% success. Any server internal or external can
ping the problem server with 100% success. Can a bad nic cause
something as selective as this?? Any other ideas?

it's possible for the nic to be bad
it will only take a few minutes to change it and see what happens