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Now while I am in Tech support, I'm mostly self trained in the server area, and I've never had, or looked at having, two PCs connected to the net without NAT. Basically my situation is this:

I have a personal server at work that runs linux for some website and email stuff that I do, this is directly connected to the net. At home I have a Windows Server 2003 box that runs Exchange and AD for my home PCs.

I will likely be leaving my job for a new one soon, and would like to be able to take the server at work and plug it into my home network and have both servers conected to the net directly. I can get a second IP address from my ISP so there are no issues there. But what I'm not familiar with is how to have it setup for both to have the direct IP address on the Internet.

I've started doing some research about this on the net, but any help or suggestions in this area would be greatly appreciated.

Yes, it can be done, but we'd need to know a lot more about your network details.

Home Setup -

Windows 2003 Server Standard
3 Client PCs
Generic ADSL Modem
Linksys WRT54g wireless router

Currently the Modem is doing the PPP connection to the net, with the Server as a DMZ. I have been thinking of switching the modem into bridging mode and having the Win2003 box doing the PPP.

Wireless router and client PCs are on the servers local network connection.

I don't have a second IP address yet for the home internet connection, as I need to change my connection plan to be able to do so, have started the process for it though.

Work Server -
On the work network, direct connection to the net. Runs Ubuntu Server.

Anything else you would need to know?

do the bridging mode and use a standard switch/hub connecting the work server, home server and the modem.

that is something like what I had set up when I had dsl only instead of having a server doing NAT i had a server doing dhcp and all my machines connecting directly to the net via pppoe with the firewalls set to allow all incoming/out going on the local network but to have standard blocking on the virtual pppoe adaptor. made sure file sharing was also bound to local network only.

Hope this helps.

Lisa wrote:do the bridging mode and use a standard switch/hub connecting the work server, home server and the modem.

That's what I was thinking I'd have to do, just wasn't sure whether it would actually work or not.

It'll be a while before I can try it out, but thanks for the help.