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Server 2003 with 2 NIC's

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by sidvail

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I was so frustrated this weekend trying to set up a small home network with my copy of SBS 2003 using a router, that I finally pulled the router and went with 2 NIC's.

After a couple hours of messing with DHCP and DNS, I finally got it up and running.

Is this a good idea? Should I still have a router in there someplace? 2003 seems to push the 2 nic scenario, so I figure there's something to it. But seems to me, there is still the server connected directly to the internet. Not good.

What am I missing here? Any advice?

I took the router out because I couldn't get a port opened for use with my management program (never had this problem with linksys router - but belkin and siemon routers I tried this weekend stymied me) Finally got frustrated and took them out - went with this method. Everything works fine now.

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by bfilmfan

I wouldn't advise directly exposing your AD to the world, so my advice is to call the router support numbers and open the ports that you need to have work.

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