Dell PE 2650 dual nic configuration

[stimey73]

First, let me say this is my first post so please forgive me if I am in the wrong forum of if my wording is not exactly right. I am a long time visitor, first time posting. the forums have been very helpful in the past. Thanks guys.

Here's the deal. I have a Dell PE 2650 with a dual nic. Windows 2000 Server. It is currently set up as our FTP server with an internal 10. address only. We are in the process of going live with Linktivity software for remote desktop support.

Here's the plan. ( so far ) We are planning to use an external address, assigned to the second nic in the server once it is set up in the DMZ. Then point the linktivity connection point to the external address .. etc. etc. My question ? How do I configure the second address ?

May sound like a dumb question to some, but I cannot figure it out.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

 

[AFB]

Are you asking how two configure the second (internal) network card ? Wait a second, is that a 2-in-1 NIC card ? It may show up as two(?).

 

[gaidin123]

Welcome to the AT forums!

The Dell 2650 usually has the 2 onboard Broadcom gigabit NICs. If you haven't configured them as a team (2 NICs teamed into one logical NIC for failover/load balancing with the Broadcom management software) then they should simply show up as Lan connection 1 and 2 in the Network control panel. Are you seeing 2, or only one?

Also, this may be a moot point for your setup, but a DMZ'd box is supposed to be on a separate logical LAN from your internal LAN and external network. ie you shouldn't have a box that is both on the DMZ network and your internal network. If it gets compromised, that machine is a perfect bridge between your 2 networks...

Assuming you want the server on both of your networks at once and you have a load balance/failover setup on the NICs you could add an ip alias to the logical NIC so that the one interface has IPs from both networks.

Gaidin