How do I share ADSL using NT4 Small Business Server?
If you’ve had a go at this operating system for use on BigPond, you’ve probably discovered that it wasn’t designed to work with a Dynamic IP. Never fear! All is not lost. I’ve managed to get this one working on ADSL using my limited experience in this area. The ADSL software will change the Network Properties automatically to the Dynamic IP when it logs on to BigPond, so you can give it any old IP when configuring. Other than that, I fitted a second network card with a “dummy” IP in a different IP range for the modem to plug into, and then used the Internet wizard in the SBS console selecting the “using a router” (even though it’s not a router) option. (I set the second NIC’s dummy IP as the router address.) Although this got things working, I am not overly confident that it is the best way of doing it. I have since learnt that uninstalling DHCP Server and manually assigning IPs to the client PCs is the way to go. However, my opinion is that a Hardware router should be used between the
