dazed and confused

[SkepticalOne]

I have a windows sbs 2003 machine with 2 NICs, one pointed at the LAN, one pointed at the Netopia router (WAN). Everyone on the LAN can get to the internet, no one on the LAN can reach the Netopia. All cards are on the same subnet as is the server. The server is directly connected to the Netopia and routing traffic through it. Both cards on the same subnet.
What an I missing here?
The eventual result is to have VPN using port forwarding for VPN and Remote desktop.
What is making me wonder is that if we can get through the router to get to the internet, why can't I ping or get to the configuration interface to the router?
Anyone? Please help a confused old guy.

 

[Nothinman]

You have 2 NICs in the server and both of them have addresses on the same subnet and you want that Win2K3 box to route between them?

 

[SkepticalOne]

from that reply, I'm taking it I need to subnet them differently? OK. But to answer your question, yes. Still wondering why all network entities connect through the device but cannot contact the device itself...

 

[nweaver]

the SBS servers should replace the netopia router, if you truely want it to route for your network. unless it's premiume (iirc) with ISA, then I would probably not do the routing through the SBS machine.

 

[Nothinman]

from that reply, I'm taking it I need to subnet them differently? OK. But to answer your question, yes. Still wondering why all network entities connect through the device but cannot contact the device itself...

You can only route between two different network segments, everyone on one segment assumes they can talk to everyone else on the same segment without going through a router. Unless the device is connected to the same switch as everything else via another port they shouldn't be able to, but Windows isn't exactly known for being a good networking device so it's possible it's passing some traffic and not other for some unknown reason.