IP settings Windows 2000

[kerssies]

What are the best IP settings for the LAN and LOCAL in windows 2000 on the server machine and what on the client machine.

LOCAL SETTINGS

On the Local settings I have "Optain an IP address automatically and Optain DNS address automatically

LAN SETTINGS

Use the following IP address 10.0.0.150
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0

Is it better to give the local settings a IP addres and what for ip adddres i should give

Please give me some information what the best is foe using Wingate 6.04

Thanks in advance,

Wilko

[jamesc]

Hi,

There are a couple of approaches you can take configuring your Local Area Networks IP Addresses, below is my suggested way which should teach you a little bit about the concepts we are working with. Some casual considerations that need to be made are:

1. How large your network is
2. Whether you have friends with laptops/pcs who come around and want to plug into your network and connect to the internet without any manual configurations
3. How well you know the concepts of networking.

Now based off your post, we should begin with considering point no. 3. And I also presume when you say "Local" you mean the Windows 2000 machine running WinGate, and the LAN as the clients that will connect to WinGate to share the internet connection.

Windows 2000 machine running WinGate
External IP address ... internal modem or external router? If it is already working, no changes should be required.
Internal IP address 10.0.1.1 (Network card facing the internal network)
Subnet 255.255.255.0

Client machines to share the internet connection from Win2000 WinGate server
IP address 10.0.1.x where x is any number between 2 and 254
Subnet 255.255.255.0
DNS 10.0.1.1
GATEWAY 10.0.1.1

On the client machines, the DNS is used to turn domain names to ip addresses, e.g www.google.com = 64.233.187.99 ... The DNS is set to 10.0.1.1 because the WinGate server performs that service.

Also on the client machines, the GATEWAY is used when an IP address cannot be found on the local network.. So on the client machine when they put www.google.com into internet explorer, DNS will return the IP address of 64.233.187.99 , and your computer will say to it self, "Well 64.233.187.99 is not on my local network, so I will send it to the GATEWAY to find it". WinGate is the GATEWAY and will track down the location to get the Google web page from.

Once you have the Manual IP addresses concept sorted out. Then you can change it to use DHCP (automatically allocating IP address.) and have more automation over your network.

[kerssies]

I have three icons in my Network and Dial-Up connections (Lan Connection, Local Area Connection and MXstream) I use a ADSL connection to a Ethernet Card, with MXstream I make the connection to Internet. I have 4 PC connected to my PC (server)
So what you suggestion is to give the Local Area Coinnection (Server) a IP address 10.0.1.1 and a Subnet of 255.255.255.0 and nothing more.
Than the client machines should have a IP address 10.0.1.2 and a Subnet of 255.255.255.0 and the DNS + Gateway set to 10.0.1.1
Wilko

[jamesc]

The network card that is facing your ADSL modem should not require any configuration; if it works, leave it as is. (LOCAL SETTINGS, i think)

The network card facing your four client computers(LAN SETTINGS, I think), should/could be changed to my suggestions. You do not have to use the 10.0.1.x range, I just suggested that becasue I new you already were using the 10.0.0.x range... but i did not know if that was on the ADSL side, or LAN side of your computer.

If you want to confirm which card is which (Lan Connection, Local Area Connection) then just unplug the cable, while you have the "Network and Dial-Up connections " window open; it should tell you which one has been disconnected.

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Revised addresses using the 10.0.0.x subnet


Windows 2000 machine running WinGate
Internal IP address 10.0.0.150 (Network card facing the internal network)
Subnet 255.255.255.0

Client machines to share the internet connection from Win2000 WinGate server
IP address 10.0.0.x where x is any number between 1 and 254 (except 150)
Subnet 255.255.255.0
DNS 10.0.0.150
GATEWAY 10.0.0.150