Share internet between 2 windows server networks

[Howster]

Hi,
I have 2 wired networks 1 running server 2012 other server 2008. I have one source of internet that I want to share to both. Both networks have seperate ips 10.10.0.x and 192.168.x.y
How do I just share the internet to both? A router?
Pls advise

 

[bill001g]

Although not the best way to do it you could use 2 routers. Plug one into the internet and let is lan be say the 10.x network and then plug the second router into the first and let its lan be the 192.x network. It does have some drawbacks because of the extra nat but it is simple.

The other way is to get a real router. The devices they sell called routers in the consumer stores are better called gateways. They only allow a single lan subnet. A actual router does not have these restrictions. The cheapest way to accomplish this is to load third party firmware like dd-wrt onto a compatible consumer device to give it the features of a actual router. It depends on you skill levels it is not all that hard but it does take a lot of reading. A commercial router tends to be kinda expensive and even these take some study because of all the features they have....that you can mostly ignore but get in your way.

 

[Howster]

Thanks. I have a linksys wrt54g that im playing around with as a novice enthusiast. Not sure if it has ddwrt though. I'd just like to get internet to both networks. If you could recommend a cheap proper router even used I'd like to consider getting one off eBay maybe. Thanks

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Linksys_WRT54G/GL/GS/GX

 

[bill001g]

I am pretty sure that router does run dd-wrt it was one of the most popular back in its day for that reason. It is just a matter of finding the software that is compatible out of that massive list you have......that tends to be the hardest thing on dd-wrt actually loading it is easy.

Unfortunately I am not the best person to recommend a affordable commercial router. I only work with cisco and juniper enterprise level equipment...and inexpensive is never associated with those. I personally use a Cisco 2821 for my internet router but it is a very old model which makes it less costly. It also is not all that fast, it will likely not run 100m internet connection. There are of course more modern models but you quickly get over $1000 also.

There are other smaller brands of commercial router that I am not familiar with. You can also look at small commercial firewalls since they too have the router features you want.

I would try the dd-wrt on the router you have first.

 

[Howster]

I am pretty sure that router does run dd-wrt it was one of the most popular back in its day for that reason. It is just a matter of finding the software that is compatible out of that massive list you have......that tends to be the hardest thing on dd-wrt actually loading it is easy.

Unfortunately I am not the best person to recommend a affordable commercial router. I only work with cisco and juniper enterprise level equipment...and inexpensive is never associated with those. I personally use a Cisco 2821 for my internet router but it is a very old model which makes it less costly. It also is not all that fast, it will likely not run 100m internet connection. There are of course more modern models but you quickly get over $1000 also.

There are other smaller brands of commercial router that I am not familiar with. You can also look at small commercial firewalls since they too have the router features you want.

I would try the dd-wrt on the router you have first.

Thanks I'll give it a go so with dd wrt. Thanks a lot.