Re: How to configure Windows 2003 as a Router ?

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"Peter" <Peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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There is default gateway in headquarter and remote site. However, the network
guy says that in order to get both sites get connected with the new lease
line, he has to remove the default gateway at remote site and make use > of
the Windows 2003 Server as router here.

It doesn't matter what router is used for the Default Gateway as long as the
router that is used "knows" how to get to everything else. So the network guys
are "partially" correct, but they may have too narrow of a view of it.

The Default Gateway of the hosts on any particular subnet should be the router
that has the most "knowledge" about the rest of the LAN/WAN. That "knowledge"
may or may not be accomplished by Dynamic Routing Protocols between the routers.

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