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by tristan.smit

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I manage the networks at two physically separate buildings. Each building has it's own subnet (192.168.0.x and 192.168.1.x). The buildings are close enough together to use a wireless bridge which I have already setup and tested but I have run into an issue I must resolve. When the bridge was in place computers would often grab an IP from the subnet of the OTHER building which I DO NOT want to happen. I want to minimize traffic over the bridge and do not want DHCP requests to be able to pass over the bridge (ie all machines at building A have 192.168.0.x address' and at building B all machines have 192.168.1.x address'). Am I able to do this by setting up a windows computer as a gateway? Are two NIC's required? If so how do I go about doing this?

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by bart777

You WOULD need 2 nics. You'll need to setup Routing and Remote access so that the server will act as a router instead of a bridge or gateway. These will not seperate traffic properly. This will keep the 2 networks seperate and prevent the DHCP crossover.

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