2 RRAS questions

1. My RRAS on 2003/SP2 is behind a firewall and is doing no routing. The
server has 2 physical NICs but the firewall only forwards external traffic
to NIC 1. NIC 1 is also used to obtain DHCP, DNS, & WINS addresses for
clients. RRAS mgr shows there's activity on NIC 2, much less than on NIC 1.
My suspicion is that NIC 2 is not actually functional for RRAS, no? It's
not being used to route to a diff subnet, & the firewall handles NAT. Ping
fails to reply to NIC 2, but replies to NIC 1. Any reason I shouldn't
disable it or make it part of a team using the IP of NIC 1?

2. RRAS on 2003/SP2 installs an "Internal" interface under IP
Routing->General and it gets an IP from DHCP. What's this interface used
for? It appears in DNS and messes up remote connection to the server
because it will reply to ping once, but not the next 3 attempts. odd...

"B L Muzzy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> 1. My RRAS on 2003/SP2 is behind a firewall and is doing no routing. The
> server has 2 physical NICs but the firewall only forwards external traffic
> to NIC 1. NIC 1 is also used to obtain DHCP, DNS, & WINS addresses for
> clients. RRAS mgr shows there's activity on NIC 2, much less than on NIC
> 1. My suspicion is that NIC 2 is not actually functional for RRAS, no?
> It's not being used to route to a diff subnet, & the firewall handles NAT.
> Ping fails to reply to NIC 2, but replies to NIC 1. Any reason I
> shouldn't disable it or make it part of a team using the IP of NIC 1?
>
> 2. RRAS on 2003/SP2 installs an "Internal" interface under IP
> Routing->General and it gets an IP from DHCP. What's this interface used
> for? It appears in DNS and messes up remote connection to the server
> because it will reply to ping once, but not the next 3 attempts. odd...
>
>
>
1. If you are behind a firewall you do not need the second NIC. I would
disable it.

2. The RRAS internal interface is the connection point for remote access
connections. For the problems this interface can cause with RRAS see KB
292822 .