how to replace a nic card on a dns server

[edwinhunt]

hi all,

i have 1 server configured using dns, dhcp and wins. the nic card on this server is integrated and running at 100Mb speed. what i want to do is replace this with a Gig nic card. since the old 100Mb is integrated i won't be able to physically take the hardware out so it will really be just adding the gig card then disabling the old one. how does this affect my active directory network? can you let me know what's the best step by step procedure that i should go about doing this? do you see an future problems that may arise? please let me know... right now i don't have any problem on my network. it's just that my other servers are all running on a gig nic speed and i just would like to upgrade it. replacing the whole server is out of the picture right now.

thanks a lot in advance,
ed

 

[ShackDaddy]

Those service all care primarily about the IP address that they are bound to. If you install the new card with a different IP, then, locally to the server, disable the integrated adapter and re-ip the new adapter with the old IP, then reboot, I think you should have minimal problems.

After the reboot, check the application and system logs for errors and then go into each service's admin tool and make sure that the server is set to listen on the IP you are expecting.

Sometimes you have problems IP'ing an adapter with the same IP that a disabled adapter is using. If this is the case, you will want to re-ip the integrated adapter before disabling it so that it doesn't give you that error.

ShackDaddy