HTTP on multiple NICs

I have three Domino servers installed on a Dell server running Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition.

There are 6 NICs installed, an on-board Intel PRO/100 S getting a DHCP address (not used yet), an on-board Intel PRO/1000 MT with a static internal IP address (Domino server 1), and two Intel PRO/1000 MT Dual Port Server adapters. Each adapter has only one port active. The active ports are Domino servers 2 & 3 and they also have static internal IP address assigned.

The Notes.ini files for each server have the following lines:

TCPIP=TCP, 0, 15, 0, w.x.y.z,3280(0-2)

TCPIP_TCPIPAddress=0, w.x.y.z:1352

(the (0-2) indicates the respective unique last digit of the five digit string; w.x.y.z is the respective static IP adddress)

Each server has a unique internet site document and server 1 has always been bound to the host name in the server document.

Server 1 runs without a hitch 100% of the time. Server 2 ran fine until I ran server 3, at which point it stopped responding to http requests. Server 3 would run fine. When I bound servers 2 & 3 to their respective host names in their server documents, server 2 would run and server three would give the HTTP Server error: “Unable to Bind host.domain.com, port 80, port may be in use”

It seems to me that they are stepping on each other. What am I missing and how do I fix this?

Subject: HTTP on multiple NICs

If you are binding to a hostname for each server (which you should be) you could try putting each name into the local Hosts file and pointing each of the names to their respective local IP address.

Regards,

Alex Elliott

AGE Computer Consultancy

Subject: RE: HTTP on multiple NICs

Already done…still a binding error. Is there a known driver issue?