how to setup 2 adsl connections in 2003 server

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ok so heres situation

1 x current adsl thus line

1 x new line being installed next week bulldog

currently 1 router on the thus line

and a router will be installed on the bulldog line,

i wish to have the bulldog line as the major connection into 2003 server,

which i can configure

i want to keep the thus line (works) to allow the server to upload from that,

know am i rite in thinking put another nic into the server,

and configure it for the settings of the router, the thus connection

and then use the bind to ip address features in the applications i want to go down that route ?

the only time ive done this before is when ive used load balancing routers etc,

But i beleive this way can be done quite simply,
 
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The easiest (and cheapest!) way to set this up, is via static routes

For the sake of this explanation I'll say that the bulldog adsl router has an IP address of 192.168.0.1 and the current adsl router has an IP address of 192.168.0.2

The computer in question would then need to be setup like this:

IP Address: 192.168.0.3
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Default gateway: 192.168.0.2
DNS: 192.168.0.2

To set up the static route, you need to open a command prompt, and then type in:

route -p ADD <destination IP> MASK 255.255.255.255 192.168.0.1 METRIC 30

This will create a persistant route to this particular IP address, going through the router connected to the bulldog ADSL connection
 
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ok what i want to do is have the bulldog line serving the server and all clients on the network,

i wish to keep the demon line to be able for people from the outside to connect into the server as before for vpn ftp remote desktop email etc, because it has our static ip,

but i wish for all traffic outbound to go via Bulldog

do you see what i mean
 
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A simple solution: install a second NIC in the computer, set it up so
they are on different networks (e.g. 192.168.0.5 and 192.168.1.5) Set
up the default gateways (which can be set up individually for each NIC
192.168.0.1 and 192.168.1.1) forward ports on each router. for
dynamic dns use the router as the dynamic dns client (if you can)
otherwise this may be a bit tougher.

Note: the host (a) will still send all its non-vnc traffic out of one
interface You can configure which one by going to network and dial up
connections then on the menu choose Advanced->Advanced Settings, once
there change the provider order in the top box (whoever's on top wins)

If you really want it to do both what you need is load balancing and
this is both complicated and not usually worth the effort as getting
protocols through load balancers is either a Big pain or costs a
decent amount of money. thats what i posted a long time ago on a different forum

basically you need to make each connection so its a different network

so the bulldog line as an ip of lets say 192.168.0.1
and the demon line as an ip of lets sat 192.168.1.1

and for example if you connected your clients to your demon line you'd configure the client ip addresses to coinside with the demon line

so basically what your doing esentially is setting up 2 different networks with 2 different adsl lines on 1 server
 
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Ok thanks again very much youve helped me loads :D

i do have a question not related at all in theory

if someone joins a vpn hosted on my server

can they join the domain ?

and when there pc reboot select the option log on via dial up connection select the vpn and then they are as if they are on the domain internal ?
 
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