- Oct 7, 2011
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Hi,
I'm in an office with a corporate network. I want to try out something to see if it will work generally at customer sites. The problems I have here is that I don't know much about networks and I don't know anything about the corporate network and have no access to it. If I need access to the corporate networks config to do what I want then please let me know as I then know I can't go further!
I have 2 servers that I want to run on a PC (Windows 7). The servers require a particular port number and want to connect to another device on the network at the same time. That won't work with just one NIC so I need two NIC's (or a virtual PC - that does work but isn't the solution I want to use). Two NIC's on the same network causes problems - it doesn't quite work.
I have a router (Netgear FVS318) and have plugged that into the corporate network (10.158.72.*). NIC 2 is plugged into that router and get's an IP address 192.168.1.2. For now, I disable NIC 1 (which would be connected to 10.158.72.*). I can ping my device and I get a reply - great. But when I try to use our proprietry protocol using UDP, I can see the packets go out to the device but the replies from the device do not make it to the PC (according to wireshark).
If I enable NIC 1, I get the replies coming through on that!
So that's the first problem, it can't seem to send the replies back through the router.
Secondly, even if I get that working, the device needs to be able to initiate requests to 192.168.1.2 which is (I believe) a whole different problem. How will the coroproate network know to route to my router for those addresses?
Sorry it's a big vague. Really, can I just add a router to an existing network like this quite easily?
Thanks.
Peter.
I'm in an office with a corporate network. I want to try out something to see if it will work generally at customer sites. The problems I have here is that I don't know much about networks and I don't know anything about the corporate network and have no access to it. If I need access to the corporate networks config to do what I want then please let me know as I then know I can't go further!
I have 2 servers that I want to run on a PC (Windows 7). The servers require a particular port number and want to connect to another device on the network at the same time. That won't work with just one NIC so I need two NIC's (or a virtual PC - that does work but isn't the solution I want to use). Two NIC's on the same network causes problems - it doesn't quite work.
I have a router (Netgear FVS318) and have plugged that into the corporate network (10.158.72.*). NIC 2 is plugged into that router and get's an IP address 192.168.1.2. For now, I disable NIC 1 (which would be connected to 10.158.72.*). I can ping my device and I get a reply - great. But when I try to use our proprietry protocol using UDP, I can see the packets go out to the device but the replies from the device do not make it to the PC (according to wireshark).
If I enable NIC 1, I get the replies coming through on that!
So that's the first problem, it can't seem to send the replies back through the router.
Secondly, even if I get that working, the device needs to be able to initiate requests to 192.168.1.2 which is (I believe) a whole different problem. How will the coroproate network know to route to my router for those addresses?
Sorry it's a big vague. Really, can I just add a router to an existing network like this quite easily?
Thanks.
Peter.
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