IP Routing

I have 2 subnets on my network. Each subnet has its own internet gateway. I
have a windows 2003 server that has a nic for each subnet and the gateway for
each nic is set to that subnet's gateway. When I turn on IP routing on the
server and point each host to the server I can communicate between subnets,
but the server will only route one subnet to the internet. Is there a limit
on how many gateways server 2003 will handle or is there a trick to get it to
route internet traffic on the second subnet to its own gateway? This server
also handles DNS for both subnets and DHCP for one subnet. The other subnet
(the one that won't route) has static IP.


dougbram

"dougbram" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have 2 subnets on my network. Each subnet has its own internet gateway.
I
> have a windows 2003 server that has a nic for each subnet and the gateway
for
> each nic is set to that subnet's gateway. When I turn on IP routing on
the
> server and point each host to the server I can communicate between
subnets,
> but the server will only route one subnet to the internet. Is there a
limit
> on how many gateways server 2003 will handle or is there a trick to get it
to
> route internet traffic on the second subnet to its own gateway?

Yes, there is a limit. The limit is *1*. Default Gateways are *global* for
the whole machine. There can only be one and it goes on the Nic that
correspods to the subnet the chossen DFG is associated with. The other Nic
must have the Default Gateway left blank.


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