Hello all.
I have a slightly bizarre network set-up at home to allow me to be permanently connected to a vpn router at work, while having a domain at home.
My internet IP address is dynamic and traffic comes in via a firewall router on the subnet 192.168.123.x (router .254)
The 192.168.123 subnet is main one for my domain, but I have a firewall endpoint router (192.168.123.253 on the wan side) which is on the subnet 192.168.1.x on its lan side.
So I have 2 subnets at home 192.168.123 and 192.168.1.
Initially I just put an extra nic in my server (sbs 2000) so it could contact my work over the vpn - works no problem.
I then put a second nic in another machine (XP Pro) so it is also multihomed. Vpn is painfully slow on this machine & when you log in to my local domain it takes ages to bring up the desktop (which before the second nic was instant).
I think I have confused something somewhere by having 2 multihomed machines on the same 2 networks - anyone got any ideas (I've tried messing with dns settings a bit, and disabled the client for networking on the second nic, increased its metric to 2, all to no avail!!)
Thanks in anticipation
Phil
I have a slightly bizarre network set-up at home to allow me to be permanently connected to a vpn router at work, while having a domain at home.
My internet IP address is dynamic and traffic comes in via a firewall router on the subnet 192.168.123.x (router .254)
The 192.168.123 subnet is main one for my domain, but I have a firewall endpoint router (192.168.123.253 on the wan side) which is on the subnet 192.168.1.x on its lan side.
So I have 2 subnets at home 192.168.123 and 192.168.1.
Initially I just put an extra nic in my server (sbs 2000) so it could contact my work over the vpn - works no problem.
I then put a second nic in another machine (XP Pro) so it is also multihomed. Vpn is painfully slow on this machine & when you log in to my local domain it takes ages to bring up the desktop (which before the second nic was instant).
I think I have confused something somewhere by having 2 multihomed machines on the same 2 networks - anyone got any ideas (I've tried messing with dns settings a bit, and disabled the client for networking on the second nic, increased its metric to 2, all to no avail!!)
Thanks in anticipation
Phil