Re: Moving From Modem to Broadband - Not Working!

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From: Michael Rudnick (news_at_rcc-pcsupport.com)
Date: 07/04/04 

Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 17:34:58 -0700

Maybe I confused you or maybe your comments confused me.

The ISP's router is x.x.x.1. It's a public address. I can ping that address
from a remote computer (outside the office). I didn't and can't configure
that router. They gave us a public address we could use (x.x.x.56) to
connect to the router. I used that public address for the WAN NIC on the
SBS server. The SBS server also has a private address for the LAN NIC. Let
me repeat the layout here:

- Router IP: x.x.x.1
- WAN NIC IP: x.x.x.56
                        Subnet: 255.255.255.0
                        DG: x.x.x.1
                        DNS: 192.168.0.1
- LAN NIC IP: 192.168.0.1
                         Subnet: 255.255.255.0
                        DG: (blank)
                        DNS: 192.168.0.1
- Workstations IP: 192.168.0.x (dynamic addresses)

We already have been using the internal network (192.168.0.x) so I don't
plan to change that. I guess I could throw in an inexpensive router to put
between the ISP router and the SBS router. But that may not address my
problem -- when I configure the SBS WAN IP to be x.x.x.56 and the DG as
x.x.x.1 I can't ping the DG. If I added a router between, I might be in the
same situation I'm in now (not being able to ping the DG).

Can you offer any reasons why the SBS server can't ping the DG when it's
WAN NIC is on the same subnet and the router's NIC?

Thanks. 

-- 
Michael Rudnick
news@RCC-pcSupport.com
"Henry Craven" <IUnknown@Dot.Nyet> wrote in 
news:Oj0#QULYEHA.3120@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl:
> Thanks Mick.
> (I should proof-read before I hit the send button )
> 
> Yes That should have been 192.168.0.2/254
> 
> 11-254 as you point out if you allow for the Reservations SBS makes.
>
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