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Hello all,
I have a question for you guys. Currently my
company is using WinNT, CP FW-1, SP3. We are migrating to Win2k. The
firewall has 4 NICS, and the CP license is bound to the NIC facing the
internet. My problem is this...Under windows 2000, Win2k does not
recognize the NIC as being enabled if the Cable or connection is down (ie.
"ipconfig /all = "cable disconnected")..which means that if our link or
connection goes down on the NIC that the Firewall is licensed to, Windows will
not recognize that NIC. This means that Checkpoint will not recognize that
the firewall has a license and thus not allowing us to control policy for
traffic flow thought the other 3 NICS. It will give you the error, "no
license for user interface".
Besides plugging a loopback cable into the NIC if
the connection happens to go down, does anybody have any other suggestions on
how to make Win2k recognize the IP's of the NICs, even if the cables are
disconnected?
Thank you,
Aeon
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