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Hey guys i know this isnt really regarding speed or networking but i find you fellas very knowledgable and was wondering if you can help me with this:

current set up @ a network:
8 servers running, 1 for each department of the company(ex: 1 for department a, 1 for b, 1 for C, 1 for d and so on)

my ...

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1. well if its for four clients, no need for the 24 port switch unless you plan on expanding rapidly. but since you already have it, its fine.

2. I do not see any sort of somewhat sane reason to use 10.x.x.x leasing range, thats a class A network capable of handling 8388606 hosts on 2 subnets or ...

i do not think you should have applied for this sort of job if you do not even know what NAT is, forums may help now, but they wont save your job forever.

Hey guys now that my server is up and running well i am tryin to do this ASAP heheheeh, i have a computer that i plan on using as a hardware firewall...

This is my current set up:
CABLE MODEM FROM MY ISP
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Server 2003(Acting as DHCP, DNS, RRAS, giving all other pcs access to the internet ...

Ty for all your help, i redid all my configurations and it is working now, everything is fine and onto my next adventure of figuring out how to get server 2003 to allow ports #### through #### lol, as for your concern YeOlde i know, but i have all my updates and my server is as secure as it gets ...

hey i just reinstalled server 2003, figured why not start over, YeOlde, to what i have read about you, you are VERY knowledgable on this topic, would you please help me set this up?

hey i just got back from messing with 2003 server again, i pinged google IP to make sure it wasnt just a dns issue. that wasnt it, cant ping either.

the other need is set to obtain everything automatically, so you want me to get that IP and ping it from another workstation?

edit: i am familiar with rras, just not sure why this is giving me such issues

the server ip address is 192.168.1.100, and i cant ping external ip's either. i think we have some confusion, the cable modem is a gateway? i want all to be server, cable modem jsut gives me internet access from my isp. but yea the server has DHCP installed leasing 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.150 the ...

Hey guys, this is my first day on this forum, was pushed to signing up due to the fact that after 4 days of attempting to resolve my problem, im still failing.

The Plan

To have a network flow accordingly to this map:

CABLE MODEM
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Server(2003 R2)
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Router now acting as a switch with DHCP ...