Hi Kenneth,

In our department here alone, the RRAS is serving around 200+ units... all
are using 1 level Class C ip range, but the university I think would be
serving around 30-50+ departments for all colleges.  So the network link
given by the university to our department is placed on a win2k server, and
we added another network card on it so we could share our internet
connection.


On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Kenneth Whyman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I would replace your RRAS gateway with a more reliable device such as a
> router. RRAS works fine if you are only supporting 2 to 5 nodes, but more
> traffic than that can quickly overwhelm it. A dedicated router would be
> able
> to keep up with the demands a lot more reliably, and would free up that
> Win2K server box for other tasks such as being a domain controller or a VPN
> server. How many nodes are you trying to support, and how big of an uplink
> do you use?
>
> Kenneth Whyman
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> "Chance favors the prepared mind."
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Frederick Navarro <[log in to unmask]
> >wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone again.
> >
> > We have here a machine running on Windows 2000 Server with two LAN cards.
> >  1
> > for the actual internet connection, another 1 for the LAN connection.
> > Internet connection has been shared by using RRAS functionality of Win2k.
> >
> > Our setup runs smoothly, (all computers could access the internet w/out
> any
> > problems) however, at some point of time in the day, all computers could
> no
> > longer access the internet.  I tried to ping the server's ip address and
> it
> > would say request timed out.  We had a manual and inconvenient solution
> to
> > this by enabling and disabling the LAN network icon under the network
> > connections icon and we could access the internet.  But my concern really
> > here is that is this a normal problem for win2k? Any solutions to this
> > because the problem occurs in random (i.e. noontime, early morning, even
> > non
> > at all)?  Thank you very much guys....
> >
> > Frederick
> >
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