Hi Guys,
I think a question should have been asked at the beginning.
Why is there two nics in the server to begin with? Normally this is just
flatout a bad design,...there is pretty much never ever a need for two nics in a
server unless there is Nic teaming being done or the server is acting as a LAN
Router or Internet Firewall/Proxy.
If the goal is to have a clean, properly designed, and effiecient network that
is the first thing that should be looked at.
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Phillip Windell
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The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft, or
anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
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"grep" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> In Frank's case, since there are multiple 172 networks involved, it would be
> easiest to do the latter, but Bill, be mindful of the RFC which creates the
> 172.x.x.x private network (RFC-1918, if you're interested). Not *all* 172
> networks are private - only the range between 16 and 31. By using 172.0.0.0
> with the mask 255.0.0.0, Frank will be prventing himself from getting to an
> address at, say, 172.45.72.102 because it will try to route him to his
> internal router.
>
> So the correct route add syntax would be:
>
> route add -p 172.16.0.0 255.240.0.0 172.30.204.100
>
> Bill is right about leaving your default gateway as your Internet router, on
> NIC2.
>
> grep
>
> Bill Grant wrote:
>> You can only have one default gateway, and that should be out to the
>> Internet. The gateway setting on the 172.30 NIC should be blank.
>>
>> To get traffic for 172. addresses to a different router you should only
>> need one static route. If they were all 172.30 addresses you would use
>>
>> route add -p 172.30.0.0 255.255.0.0 <router IP>
>>
>> If they are not all 172.30 you need to use a shorter network mask (so
>> that it covers more addresses). To redirect all packets beginning with 172
>> you would use
>>
>> route add -p 172.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 <router IP>
>>
>> "John Francisco Williams" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
>> message news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>>>Grep,
>>>
>>>Thanks a lot for your help. The default gateway in the LAN where NIC1 is, is
>>>172.30.204.100. Is that the one you suggest me to use? Sorry to bother: How
>>>exactly would the Route Add sentence be?
>>>
>>>Thanks again,
>>>
>>>Frank
>>>
>>>"grep" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>>
>>>>Hey Frank,
>>>>
>>>>For your internal networking issue, the deal is that your mask
>>>>(255.255.252.0) says that subnetting your class B network (172.30.0.0) into
>>>>6 subnets. i.e. 172.30.0.0 is a different network than 172.30.8.0. And you
>>>>say that you have hosts in networks that aren't even in 172.30.0.0 space.
>>>>
>>>>Now when you cross over any network boundary, you need to have a router (aka
>>>>gateway.) When you try to go from 172.30.0.5 to 172.30.16.7 or 172.22.0.129,
>>>>your machine is going to know (because of the mask) that those machines are
>>>>not on its network. Since they aren't on its network, it doesn't know how to
>>>>find them, unless you tell it.
>>>>
>>>>There are effectively two ways you can tell it:
>>>>1. Adding static routes for your other network, and pointing them toward the
>>>>appropriate router(s) to reach them.
>>>>
>>>>2. Setting your default route to the local router, and let it direct your
>>>>traffic.
>>>>
>>>>In your case, you can't do the latter because you can only have one default
>>>>route on a machine, and yours must point to the Internet gateway.
>>>>
>>>>Probably the easiest thing to do for you would be to add a route to
>>>>172.16.0.0 255.240.0.0 and point it to your local router on the NIC1 side.
>>>>(I'm assuming, of course, that you have one router to which you direct all
>>>>the internal network routes anyway.)
>>>>
>>>>Good luck!
>>>>
>>>>grep
>>>>
>>>>John Francisco Williams wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>>I have a computer that has 2 NICs, each connecting to a different network.
>>>>>
>>>>>NIC1:
>>>>>172.30.204.100 Static
>>>>>255.225.252.0
>>>>>
>>>>>NIC2:
>>>>>192.168.1.10 Static
>>>>>255.255.255.0
>>>>>Def Gateway: 192.168.1.254
>>>>>
>>>>>Through NIC1, I need to have access to LAN resources: 2 printers, 2 web
>>>>>servers in the intranet, a file server, a POP3 server. Those resources are
>>>>>all 172.x.x.x. NOT all of them are 172.30.x.x
>>>>>
>>>>>Through NIC2, I need to have access to the internet.
>>>>>
>>>>>Access to internet through NIC2, is working well but, to have access to the
>>>>>LAN resources, through NIC1, I've been having to do manual route add, for
>>>>>each resource. Resources are added constantly. All I know of these
>>>>>resources, is that they all start with 172.... (this looks like a Cert
>>>>>exam!! :-D ) . My question: Is what I've been doing (Route Add), the
>>>>>correct solution or, is there a better way to do it? There's probably more
>>>>>information missing here (my apologies for that). If that's the case,
>>>>>please, let me know what other information is needed, to find an answer.
>>>>>
>>>>>One other thing: When I tried to enter a default gateway for NIC1, while
>>>>>keeping the one for NIC2, I got an error message stating that I should only
>>>>>have one default gateway and, effectively, network communication fails, if
>>>>>I keep both.
>>>>>
>>>>>Thank you all for the help. Have a great day,
>>>>>
>>>>>Frank
>>>>>
>>>
>>