Question Servers with 2 Nics and Lan/Internet
- From: "irtheman" <irtheman@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 5 Dec 2006 13:05:24 -0800
Hello!
My plan is to enable the 1000Mbps nics on our servers and a few of the
workstations, all of which are currently only using their 100 Mbps
nics, and connect each to a new gigabit switch. I believe I should
give those nics a different ip address (in the range of 192.168.10.1 -
192.168.10.8) other than that which is currently used on our network
(192.168.100.50 - 192.168.100.200) but without a default gateway
configured. I don't think it is necessary to do anything more than
this. Is that the correct approach to this?
In detail, I want to use both nics in our servers the way I am sure
they were intended to be used: 100Mbps connecting to the internet and
1000Mbps connected to the internal nework. I am not really sure how
this is going to work yet though which is why I am here. The higher
ups think I should do this with our servers and a few workstations
first so they can determine its cost effectiveness. At present my
company has disabled the 1000Mbps nics in our servers and is using the
100Mbps ports to connect to the a bank of 100Mbps switches that form
our internal network and all of this works fine but we need more speed.
I have convinced my company to upgrade the internal network including
all of the company PCs to 1Gbit in a couple of months. It'll be fun
and well worth the effort but they want a proof of concept of sorts
starting with our 4 servers and 4 of our busiest workstations. I have
ordered a 1 Gbit switch with 8 ports and verified that the 4 servers
and 4 workstations have both types of nics installed. All 4 of the
servers have both 100 and 1000 Mbps nics installed and are running
Windows 2003 (the dc is running actually running SBS 2003). The 4
workstations are running XP Pro. I am thinking I need to enable the
gigabit nics, assign them ip addresses outside of the range of IPs
currently used, and be careful not to configure a default gateway. Is
this enough? Is it correct?
Thanks!
Matthew Hanna
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