RRAS and Windows 2000

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Hi,

I have a network with one Windows 2000 Server and 6 client machines running Windows 98. Currently all the machines are connected to the internet by the use of an ADSL router connected directly to the network running in NAT
configuration.

If I wanted to start adding services such as an HTTP Server, VPN access etc to the Windows 2000 server should I change this setup? Some people have talked about adding an extra NIC to the server and connecting the router directly to it in a sort of WAN/LAN NIC setup and then using RRAS NAT to allow access to the internet for the client machines. Some people have said to me that RRAS NAT isn't that good and can be quite slow and unreliable compared to using hardware NAT devices (my current setup), I really don't know.

Most of the documentation that Microsoft has written about setting up things like VPN assume your server has 2 NICs in a LAN/WAN setup so that leads me to believe this is what I should do but I'm not sure.

Any advice greatly appreciated.

Daniel Briley

 

[MattWray]

You can do what you want with only one NIC. I would definitely use a router over your server as a router. You can enable RRAS and just set up the Remote Access/VPN. Make sure to find out about forwarding the VPN ports to your server in the router....
For a web server you would only need to forward port 80 to the web server.

Thanks,

Matt Wray
MCSE, MCSA, MCP, CCNA

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