Re: Setting up wireless in a passthru/bridge mode
- From: Owen Williams [SBS MVP] <Owen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 19:31:59 -0400
In article <BD478F0D-3EB9-48D6-BC00-AD6613D928C9@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
Thanks for your fantastic help on this. I have one more, probably dumb
question, but should I run the CECIW to reconfigure the IP addresses for the
external NIC or can I do this within the adapter itself?
What Merv said.
The one thing I've been doing differently is entering the LAN (private) IP of
the router when the CEICW asks for the ISP DNS server IPs. This assumes the
router knows about the ISP's DNS servers [always the case with with dynamic
public IPs where the router gets its public IP via DHCP; not sure about static
public IP - which you have - because all of my clients use dynamic] and does
DNS forwarding to the servers the ISP provides. Many routers forward DNS
automatically, but some - especially higher-end firewall appliances - require
you to enable or configure the function.
The reason I do this is that it "decouples" the SBS network configuration from
the ISP. If the client decides to change ISPs (more reliable, better pricing,
faster speeds, etc.), I just change some router settings (e.g., add or remove
PPPoE settings if going to/from DSL). The SBS configuration never needs to be
touched.
-- Owen Williams [SBS MVP]
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