Re: Pros/Cons of Single/Dual NIC Card Topology?

Dave Nickason [SBS MVP] wrote:
Since you've purchased Premium, you'll definitely want to use 2 NICs so that
you can take advantage of ISA Server (which requires two). You can use your
old hardware firewall in between the WAN connection and the SBS if you wish,
for an added layer of protection. With ISA, it's not required, but if you
already own it I don't see any reason not to use it that way if you wish.
Then use a switch on the LAN side - your SBS's internal NIC and the other
devices on your internal network would connect to that.

Wouldn't keeping the existing firewall hardware reduce some load on the
server, since its not getting requests it will end up rejecting anyway?

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