Routing Question

[XofCDe3rd]

Hello All

I would like to hide our hardware router(which connects us to the outside world and the current gateway for the server) on our internal network by pointing the clients to the server for internet traffic and have the server re-route traffic to the outside world via its gateway

basically the rundown of what I want/have is as follows:
1) Clients see the server as gateway (gateway/dns/ip assigned via dhcp)
2) Server is the only one that sees router
3) Server has 1 NIC

I know I will need to use routing and remote access to provide NAT services but I need a little guidance to the right path

thanks all in advance

 

[wahnula]

I would like to hide our hardware router(which connects us to the outside world and the current gateway for the server) on our internal network by pointing the clients to the server for internet traffic and have the server re-route traffic to the outside world via its gateway

Gurus, please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that you should use two NICs for the best security for RRAS. The LAN will dole out IP addresses to the network and the WAN will deal with the router, just make sure that DHCP us disabled in the router, in fact you can assign an IP address reservation for the server. You also get to use the SBS firewall in this config.

Again, I am a user, not a guru, just trying to help and share what I have learned and implemented.

Tony

"...an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind" - M.L. King

 

[XofCDe3rd]

Thanks heaps for the Info......

I guess I might also eleborate on this situation
1) I only have one network card in the server
2) SBS 2003 Premium on the server

I understand the ISA bundled can be used in this case as it is SBS 2003 premium and will do so

The reason I wish to do as posted before is because in the end internet traffic will be routed as follows:
workstation->SBS 2003->Hardware Firewall->Hardware Router->Internet

I just want If it is at all possible to do this without the second network interface, by using just NAT????