I just bought the SAME server and I am having the SAME issue.  I use the
server as a gateway server only.  It happens to me randomly also.  I have
not put any new NICS in yet, I have been doing other things to troubleshoot
the server.  I updated the Broadcom Nic drivers and it happened to me about
2 days later (server not responding).  The thing is the OS will still work,
but I couldn't surf the net, couldn't ping any Internal or External Servers
nothing.  So once I reboot it will start working properly for a random
amount of DAYS!  I called Dell and they were really no help, next step is to
put a 3Com in the server and go from there.

If you find anything out on your server let me know, and I will do the same.



Thanks,


Kris McElroy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Chief Technology Officer
Duracom, INC.
www.duracom.net

"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to
do it."

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard
Nunziante
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 9:16 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Losing network connection


>Are you using the IMail Monitor service?
No, I have that stopped

>it has often been known to produce this problem (every X hours/days no
more
>Internet connections can be made, depending on how many Internet
servers
>you monitor and how frequently).  If the problem is occurring at
standard
>intervals (every 8 hours, for example), this is probably the problem.

The problem is happening at random times


>But, not being able to ping other servers sounds more like a resource
issue
>(software), so I'm suspecting IMail Monitor (or possibly something else
--
>are there any other programs on the server that use network
connections?)
>is doing it.

I did have Dell's OpenManage Server Admin running. I stopped all
services related to that. Other then that there is nothing else running
on the box. Only the minimum, necessary services are running.


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