Have a recent, 4-port Linksys router/switch connected to a DSL line and working perfectly with two XP Pro workstations. Have an e-mail Earthlink account.
I want to add a Win 2K (Small Business Server) server that has it’s own network (hub and workstations) for testing and development and share this same DSL line as a separate network. I will have a public domain name and web site hosted by an ISP.
There will be two NIC cards in the Win2K server. One for the local network and one for connection to the WAN (Internet). WAN card will have an IP address of 192.168.1.2, for example. My Linksys router has a LAN IP address of 192.168.1.1 and I am using DHCP to assign IP addresses of 192.168.1.100 thru 192.168.150 to local stations.
My question: Can I make the Win2K network use the router “transparently” by configuring the router for a statip IP address of 192.168.1.2?
My objective is simply to use the DSL line for both the WIN2k network and the other “network/workstations”.
I want to be able to connect to the Win2K server from the other network workstations (one of the XP Pro stations) via Terminal Services, VPN, PCAnywhere, etc. Also want to test remote management from server to workstation across the Internet. I want this to be two separate ‘networks’ using the same DSL line.
I have read the Linksys documentation, etc. and this looks OK to me but I am new to configuring routers and wanted to get some feedback from someone who has done it.
I will beusing ISA for security and Exchange for e-mail from my ISP on the public Internet so I don’t need the router as a firewall. I am just trying to avoid paying for another DSL line.
