How to make my server control two networks?

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chicoisolutions

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I've been searching about this but cant find the right answer or their situation is different and I dont understand it very much so here is my problem.

I own a small internet cafe.

Network 1 are just the internet users.
Network 2 is for gaming.

I separated them because when an internet user is uploading a file or image and videos, the games gets disconnected.

Now I'm having problem because my server is not connected to the gaming network anymore and I cannot make use of the internet cafe timer which connects through IP.

Can anyone help me learn how to make my server connect to both of the network so I can bring back my timer to work.
 
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kanewolf
Nope, that is enough.

Yes you need another network card to connect to both. You should set a static IP address for both networks for your server. You will only want to set a default gateway for ONE of the two network interfaces. The network you want to get to the internet (1.x or 254.x) is the one with a default gateway.
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For now I only got the ordinary PC with just he built in lan(or NIC as you call it) It's only wired to network 1 for now.
How do I know if there are two DHCP server?
 
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Your definition of "network 1" vs "network 2" is what is confusing. My assumption by that statement was that Network 1 was something like 192.168.1.x and Network 2 was 192.168.2.x -- those would be two independent networks. If that is the case then you would need two network cards in your server to connect to both.

If the real definition of network 1 and network 2 is different than that, we need a better description....
 
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chicoisolutions

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I see so i got two routers that gives internet to each network. And they have their own network ips

Network 1 192.168.1.x
Network 2 192.168.254.x

So i need another nic to get connected to both networks?

What info do you need? Please let me know. Thanks.
 
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Nope, that is enough.

Yes you need another network card to connect to both. You should set a static IP address for both networks for your server. You will only want to set a default gateway for ONE of the two network interfaces. The network you want to get to the internet (1.x or 254.x) is the one with a default gateway.
 
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Assuming you have a business connection with stable bandwidth, you can traffic shape. I can run P2P right up a hair under my maximum connection speed and still maintain under 1ms of jitter and 8ms pings to game servers.
 
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