Re: 1 NIC to 2 NICs -- how-to instructions?

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Hi Thomas

Happy New Year! See
http://www.smallbizserver.net/Network/TwoNicsastaticIPaddressISArouter/tabid/154/Default.aspx
for what the network should look like when finished. The new NIC should be
Installed as the External NIC in most cases and you would rerun CEICW for
the new setup.

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Frank McCallister SBS MVP
COMPUMAC
"thabrown" <thabrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> I have SBS2003 SP1 premium running on a server hosting 5 workstations and
> would like to add an additional NIC card to the server (and install ISA
> eventually).
> Is there a KB article or other resource on the web (or in a book) that
> details step-by-step instructions for converting an existing 1 NIC network
> setup to a 2 NIC configuration? Or, is it as simple as running the CEIW
> wizard again? (Note, this posting is not asking how to install ISA; as I
> would pursue that later).
>
> As this server is business critical, its downtime availability is limited
> to
> weekends only, so I'd hope to minimize the conversion process and risk of
> breaking the LAN and internet access the office currently has. My fear is
> that I would install the 2nd NIC card and not easily re-establish my LAN,
> screwing up configurations for the DHCP service or router port-forwarding,
> etc. Networking issues can be difficult.
>
> Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
>
> Thomas


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