We’re running a win2k server at our engineering office and I wasn’t the original IT guy, but I have solved a lot of major issues with the server over the past year.
However because of the unstable nature of our internet sometimes, I’d like to set up a linksys router (BEFSR41) as our primary internet gateway so that when we reboot the gateway and cable modem we don’t knock users off the file/DHCP/DNS server.
What’s the best way to approach this?
I want to leave the IP’s as dynamically configured as we get a lot of visitors who end up using our wireless system (with a WEP key of course).
We do have most of the printers and office machines set as dynamically configured but I have a reservation mapped to most of the NIC MAC addresses.
The win2k server is set at the primary DNS/DHCP server as well as the primary gateway with the NAT translation mapping the internet gateway to the server.
Currently the Win2k server is also the internet router (Has 2 NIC’s).