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Routing With 2 NICs

J

Jim

Flightless Bird
Hi,

I have a problem with a slightly old set up, but I want to find a
solution....have an XP Pro box, SP3, with two network cards.

Card 1: this is my internet bound connection and has a public address on a
255.255.255.248 subnect. The gateway is a Cisco router and this connected to
the internet without issues.

Card 2: this is an internal private address and is connect to another
internal network - just configured with IP address and subnet - no gateway.

I have installed nating on the NICs, card 1 being public (full) and 2 being
private. My network connecting on card 2 can get out on the internet by
specifying the card 1 address as the DNS server and gateway (have a DNS
service running). Nating was configured using the netsh command.

My problem is that I need to add a second address to the first card, this
will be a 192.168.0.0 /24 address. Doing this cuts the connection from the
network on card 2. Is this possible? I want to add this second 192.168.0.0
network on that switch on that card 1.

I am thinking that maybe this is not going to work and I need a third NIC in
this box. I know this sounds a bit backward....there is a reason for it
though.

Thanks
Jim
 
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