Using server 2003 as NAT

[timbo343]

can anyone help?

 

Ive been struggling for a while now on sharing an internet connection through a server 2003 machine. I think it is done over routing but i aint got the foggyest on how to configure it

 

Can anyone help?

 

Tim

[fooby]

What you will need is this

 

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/security/ws03mngd/33_s3ics.mspx

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=windows+server+2003+ics&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

 

Basically you can use Internet Connection Sharing (aka ICS) to do this

 

P.S I have never used this (We currently use WinGate)

 

fooby

[ChrisH]

I have heard of problems using this and I have briefly used it myself as a temporary measure. While considering this please do look a things like Smoothwall or a little more complicated but more features Censornet or at least ISA server. Censornet and smoothwall can be installed on an older work station.

[timbo343]

will that work, as the connection is been fed from a domain on 182.16.24.1 255.255.248.0 and the im trying to get the server to act as a gateway from one domain to another. It server machine has got 2 network cards in, one one the 182.16.24 domain and one on the 192.168.1.1 domain

[ChrisH]

What traffic needs to go between the two? Just web/mail etc or server replication traffic as well?

[timbo343]

its just web traffic.

[ChrisH]

It should work fine then. Just disable the second NIC in the server. For a basic NAT firewall use Smoothwall on any pentium class machine (it will need a dedicated machine).