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Minimum DSL configuration for IIS

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by bprats

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Assisting a student with very limited funds to setup a minimum Web server for development. The ISP is providing 5 IP addresses on a DSL line. The server is Windows 2000 and IIS. There will be 2 NICs on the server, one for the DSL side and a secondfor the local hub and W98 clients. Email will be employed.

What is the minimum configuration from the DSL line to the server network card that will give some degree of server security. I was thinking about the Linksys DSL router hub (single port) for its firewall like features. Any suggestions appreciated.

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by ntoz

The only other option with Windows NT or 2000 out of the box is to set protocol or port filters on the network card. I would suggest that if your going to do this, you use the Linksys router hub. It works very nicely and is more flexable. You will have to configure forwarding for the ports you wish the outside world to see in order to get it to work, see the Linksys documentation for details.

by j.black

Bring the dsl directly into a 2nd nic on your server and in the protocol bindings, disable the dsl bound nic from server and workstation (WINS Client(TCP/IP))

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