multiple site routing

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Have 1 Windows 2003 server at home office - 192.168.2.0,
255.255.255.0 subnet using an ISDN router to connect to
another ISDN router in another city - router is
192.168.2.15
Other city is 192.168.1.0. The server is 192.168.2.12 -
everthing works great.
Need to add another remote site and can't use ISDN - using
cable. Got a cable router at home office - 192.168.2.220 -
workstations that use 192.198.2.220 as gateway can get on
the internet. Server can't get on internet unless we
change the gateway to 192.168.2.220, but then our
192.168.1.0 city can't get to server.
We have 2 NIC's in server (only using 1 right now).
Is there a way to get both remote cities to connect to our
server?
 
I am not familiar with ISDN but I may be able to point you in the right direction.
When you change your default gateway, then all non local network traffic goes to the
new gateway unless you have a defined route in the routing table. A W2K computer has
only one routing table no matter how many nics it has and it can have only one active
default gateway at a time. Other default gateways listed may only be used possibly if
the current default gateway is not responding to the operating system and then that
gateway will remain the default gateway until it is not detected.

To see your routing table enter "route print". What may work for you is to create a
static route on your server that uses the old gateway ip address [before you used
192.168.2.220] in a static route for the other city network of 192.168.1.0. A gateway
is simply the IP address of a router interface on your lan network. You can use"
route -p add " to add a persistent route to your routing table. Use route ? to bring
up the route command help. For instance to create a static route to network
192.168.1.0 using 192.168.2.125 as the router gateway you would use " route - p add
192.168.1.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.2.125 ". Be sure to follow up with a " route
print" when you are done to verify the addition of the new route. Hopefully that will
help point you in the right direction. --- Steve
 
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