Members PaulyWally Posted November 30, 2007 Members Share Posted November 30, 2007 Someone just told me that Windows SBS 2003 does not support multiple subnets. Correct me if I am wrong, but don't the routers handle all the subnet traffic routing? How would a Windows Server be affected by multiple subnets? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mike fitzwell Posted November 30, 2007 Members Share Posted November 30, 2007 Sounds like someone has their terminology screwed up. SBS 2003 does not support multiple domains, nor can it be installed as a "branch" server on an existing domain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mudbass Posted November 30, 2007 Members Share Posted November 30, 2007 Are you sure they didn't say Windows SBS 2003 doesn't support multiple SBS servers on the same subnet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PaulyWally Posted November 30, 2007 Author Members Share Posted November 30, 2007 Sounds like someone has their terminology screwed up. SBS 2003 does not support multiple domains, nor can it be installed as a "branch" server on an existing domain. Thanks! That's what I thought. I just spent all yesterday upgrading a Windows 2000 domain to 2003 AD... and made SBS 2003 the operations/schema master. That was enough of a PITA. Then someone says, "Wait... we wanted to put our web server in a DMZ and we were told that SBS doesn't support multiple subnets." I was like... ummm... OK... I never heard that. But I don't work with SBS all that much. It just didn't make any sense to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mike fitzwell Posted November 30, 2007 Members Share Posted November 30, 2007 Thanks! That's what I thought. I just spent all yesterday upgrading a Windows 2000 domain to 2003 AD... and made SBS 2003 the operations/schema master. That was enough of a PITA. Then someone says, "Wait... we wanted to put our web server in a DMZ and we were told that SBS doesn't support multiple subnets." I was like... ummm... OK... I never heard that. But I don't work with SBS all that much. It just didn't make any sense to me. Holy {censored}, I AM good for something! Take that Mrs. Fitzwell! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rpsands Posted November 30, 2007 Members Share Posted November 30, 2007 It could be talking about the ability server 2003 has to act as a nat/router/switch/firewall with multiple nics, also. Maybe it can't do routing. I don't think it's possible for there to be problems with a computer having IPs from multiple subnets. Believe alias IPs are accounted for by the router (e.g. whatever you have set as the default gateway on your nic will be the default gateway for all traffic on the same nic - unless you set up custom routing). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PaulyWally Posted November 30, 2007 Author Members Share Posted November 30, 2007 It could be talking about the ability server 2003 has to act as a nat/router/switch/firewall with multiple nics, also. Maybe it can't do routing.I don't think it's possible for there to be problems with a computer having IPs from multiple subnets. Believe alias IPs are accounted for by the router (e.g. whatever you have set as the default gateway on your nic will be the default gateway for all traffic on the same nic - unless you set up custom routing). Hmmm... since you say that... now it REALLY wouldn't make any sense. I know that SBS 2003 supports (at least) 2 nics so it can be configured as a firewall/proxy. In that sense, it must support multiple subnets. I didn't think about that before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ranjaman Posted December 1, 2007 Members Share Posted December 1, 2007 It could be talking about the ability server 2003 has to act as a nat/router/switch/firewall with multiple nics, also. Maybe it can't do routing.I don't think it's possible for there to be problems with a computer having IPs from multiple subnets. Believe alias IPs are accounted for by the router (e.g. whatever you have set as the default gateway on your nic will be the default gateway for all traffic on the same nic - unless you set up custom routing). Server 2003 is perfectly capable of NAT routing and +1 on the second statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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