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Is there a way to get windows 2003 server to accept incoming connections from the internet from 2 different gateways? For example, I have two internet connections coming in, one of them comes in from one gateway and the other comes in from another gateway. Now if I will connect my server to one gateway then I wont be able to connect to the other gateway, so is there a way to get the server to be utilized from both gateways. Thank you
type "route " from a cmd prompt and you will see some of the syntax needed . what you will want to do is set up a static route for NIC 2 , for expamle you would want to find out what the ip range of your backup device is say it is 10.100.1.1 you would create a route statment the would be
from a command prompt "route add 10.100.1.1 255.255.255.0 10.0.0.1" this would be saying to the server "if you are looking for something at this address 10.100.1.1 then go out thru this interface 10.0.0.1"
Here are some articles on the subject:
Default Gateway Behavior for Windows TCP/IP
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/com...uy/cg0903.mspx
Default gateways
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...d3859f5b1.mspx
Multiple Default Gateways Can Cause Connectivity Problems
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;159168
You can provide multiple gateways (advanced setting, TCP-IP).
But it is only going to use one gateway at certain time.
It's actually possible to "split" the bandwidth like you say, it's called load balancing. No idea how to set it up though. Probably has to do with kernel's advanced routing capabilities, the iproute2 package or something.
You can try using normal routes though. You can have a default gateway of 1.2.3.4, but send all traffic to subnet 10.* through 3.4.5.6:
route add -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 gw 1.2.3.4
route add -net 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 gw 3.4.5.6