how to setup a secondary NIC on a domain controller

[Guest]

I wanted to know if it is possible to have 2 NICs on a server running at the
same time within the same subnet.

This server is a windows 2000 DC that also runs Exchange 2000 standard as
well as DNS.

We have a spam filter where all emails entering our network go and then
pushed to the mail server via its ip address


We recently upgraded just the servers to gigabit and they all reside on one
gigabit switch. The server still have their old NIC and I have unchecked the
DNS tab settings that tells windows to “not†to register this connection with
DNS.

I would like to have secondary NIC on the server I am asking about because
the spam filter can send emails to the old NIC while the clients can access
that same server via the gigabit card.

We only have one email server for 300 people I am trying to help ease the
load on this server. Al ready have 2Gb ram and dual processors.

Our owner don’t want to spend any more money.


Any suggestions…

 

[Richard G. Harper]

No, this is not a recommended configuration and is likely to wind up causing
network problems and name conflicts. Have you actually monitored the server
with performance monitor to see what the cause of any performance issues is?

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[Guest]

Thanks for your confirmation.

Please condier the following…..

I am just a simple techguy who studied everything on his own and researched
via Newsgroups and Google….

I know AD and all of the usuall components that go hand in hand with its
integration in a small biz company.Networking is not my strongest point there
is much for me to learn there…

Here is my story please be patient:

We have 6 offices all within the 20 blocks of each other. All offices are
linked to the head site via a dedicated T1.

Our environment is strictly AD with all servers being win 2k SP4. Each site
has a DC and on that Dc its roles are GC,DNS, DHCP, Antivirus Server and File
Sharing.

Users have Folder redirection of their “my documents†there is no roaming
profiles.

I am at the head site and there we have 2 Dc one is the Mail server which
also is DNS as well as all FSMOs. The other Dc is the logon server for the
clients at my site as well as folder redirection.
We have also 3 terminal servers whereby users from home can connect and work.


I am begging my department to get an extra server at each site just to
handle the file sharing so that the Dc can work freely. Luckily they agreed.
I am doing that right now.

Second is that each site has an extremely old router ie an Intel 8100 which
all support for this product and tech support was discontinued since 2001.
This router uses IPX and I showed this to my department and they told me that
IPX is faster than TCP/IP.

The reason I am asking about a secondary NIC on the mail server is because
clients are saying that their email is slow


Form what is just bored you with any suggestions then… I was thinking about
Vlans….

 

[Richard G. Harper]

I am not bored after reading that - but I am highly confused. The only
protocol in use between sites is IPX/SPX? Not TCP/IP? That boggles my mind
because quite frankly you should not be able to use Active Directory in such
a configuration.

Again, you really need to tackle this in an organized manner. Just saying
"people complain that the mail server is slow" doesn't tell us - or you -
anything. Is it slow because it's filling the T1 pipe to capacity? Is it
slow because the server has performance issues?

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