From: "Rachel Bobrowski" 
Subject: Re: BorderManager Setup
Date: 1999/02/04
Message-ID: #1/1
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Organization: OzEmail Ltd.
Newsgroups: fido.novell

I have just installed a BM server and had experienced the same problem of
configuring the machine then installing BM and having nothing work.  Somehow
BM wants to configure everything again.....  Call it strange, I don't know,
but mine is now working like  a breeze.




Rodney Gustafson wrote in message ...
>Had an interesting problem today.  I went to setup BorderManager for the
>first time.  This is going into an environment with a Netware 5.0 file
>server, Groupwise 5.5, and NT 4.0 Workstations.  The BorderManager machine
>will be a runtime 4.11 on a Compaq box.  2NIC's - one Compaq on Mainboard,
>one 3Com 905B-Tx.  One of these cards will connect to the LAN, with a
>static, non-internet routable IP address.  The other card will connect to a
>DSL "modem".
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>Ok, so I installed the runtime 4.11 server on this box, got the nics
>configured, could ping internal and external ip's from the Compaq machine.
>Then i installed BorderManager, and so began the downward spiral.  Once the
>installation was complete, or somewhere along the way, both NIC's got
hosed.
>Neither would function properly, and both claimed hardware
>conflicts.....couldn't connect to NDS, couldn't sync the time, couldn't
even
>LOAD ping.nlm, much less get a response.  Downing and rebooting did
nothing.
>Even went so far as to remove the Wan NIC to see if the Lan NIC would then
>work.
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>I have since rebuilt the Compaq with the runtime 4.11 installation, and
have
>it functioning without BorderManager installed.  I'm uncertain whither I
hit
>some wierd fluke last time, or whether this is a known problem with a
>resolution, or whether I did something painfully obvious to an experienced
>BM person.
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>Any ideas would be very appreciated.
>
>Rod Gustafson
>Data Management Consultants, Inc.
>rod@dmcwest.com
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