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I have a single server with two NICS that I want to seperate to two VLANS each with it's own Internet connection. How do I get both NICS to talk to each other?
My goal to connect two seperate internet connections to seperate VLANS on my network and connect each VLAN and IP range (10.0.10.x and 10.0.0.x) to a seperate NIC yet have both of those NICS able to see the network and interact on the server. I don't know how to route the two on the server. Do I user software on the Windows 2003 box or do I need a seperate router? Each Internet connection is connected to a seperate Watchguard Firebox. The purpose of this is to keep the public traffic from training classrooms seperate from the employee traffic.
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Is this server doing ALL the routing in your network right now or do you have a core router doing all the routing? LIke dkarpekin said, VLAN-ing is done through managed switches either layer 2 or 3. If you want to segment it by routing through the server, then you're on the right track by having 2 NICs in the server.
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VLAN's usially supported by "managed switches".
If you network is not so big, you might not need them, you simply can achive this "as is" , just have
Windows 2003 box with 2 NIC's- 10.0.10.x and 10.0.0.x, connected to appropriate network.