Server 2003, DHCP DNS NAT Problems/Help

socket1 · 09-07-2008, 09:54 AM

Hi, I'm new here.

I need some help with using Server 2003 as a router/dhcp server for my network.

I would like to be able to have my cable modem directly hooked up to my server on one network card and then a switch on the other network card and have the server assign IPs to computers hooked up to the switch and tell those computers my ISP's DNS servers. I've looked at many guides to setting up DHCP on Server 2003 and I've done exactly what they say but what they don't say is you still need the physical router, (Linksys WRT54GX4 in my case) for NAT, I then found another guide on setting up NAT, now that's where I got lost so any help would be greatly appreciated.

I also found somewhere that the second network card that has the switch hooked up to it needs to have a fixed IP? I also tried this and all I get is one of the client computers, (Windows XP) just has limited connectivity when I hook it up to the switch.

I would appreciate anybody's ideas and advice on this, thanks!

09-07-2008, 09:54 AM	#1 (permalink)
socket1 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 1 OS: Vista XP Ubuntu Server	Server 2003, DHCP DNS NAT Problems/Help Hi, I'm new here. I need some help with using Server 2003 as a router/dhcp server for my network. I would like to be able to have my cable modem directly hooked up to my server on one network card and then a switch on the other network card and have the server assign IPs to computers hooked up to the switch and tell those computers my ISP's DNS servers. I've looked at many guides to setting up DHCP on Server 2003 and I've done exactly what they say but what they don't say is you still need the physical router, (Linksys WRT54GX4 in my case) for NAT, I then found another guide on setting up NAT, now that's where I got lost so any help would be greatly appreciated. I also found somewhere that the second network card that has the switch hooked up to it needs to have a fixed IP? I also tried this and all I get is one of the client computers, (Windows XP) just has limited connectivity when I hook it up to the switch. I would appreciate anybody's ideas and advice on this, thanks!