Daul NICs in 2003

[chenrysjr]

We were talking here at work and the question came up if you could use two nic cards each with a different IP in a 2003 server running IIS 6.0 and assign one nic to a specific website and the second nic to the second website. Has anyone done this or heard of this and how it would be setup.

Thanks.

[corturbra]

Never done it, I've had two NICS installed in a 2003 server, one on 192.168.0.0 and the other on 10.0.0.0, for the simple fact that I had to.... previous guy had installed router on 10.0.0.0 network and we couldn't get on to it to change, but being a lazy git their workstations were on 192 network and I couldn't bothered to change 30 workstations on a Friday evening...

Heck it's Friday, your users must want to go home early.... get yourself another NIC and have a play....

[cpuguyinwi]

We were talking here at work and the question came up if you could use two nic cards each with a different IP in a 2003 server running IIS 6.0 and assign one nic to a specific website and the second nic to the second website. Has anyone done this or heard of this and how it would be setup.

Thanks.

I believe you can set a site in IIS to connect using a certain interface. So, intranet.yourdomain.com could refer to the same machine as thisrocks.yourdomain.com. Only problem is, IIS can only use one instance per port. So, your intranet.yourdomain.com could use port 80, but thisrocks.yourdomain.com would have to be another TCP port, which defeats what you are trying to do.

[Snowbound67]

I believe you can set a site in IIS to connect using a certain interface. So, intranet.yourdomain.com could refer to the same machine as thisrocks.yourdomain.com. Only problem is, IIS can only use one instance per port. So, your intranet.yourdomain.com could use port 80, but thisrocks.yourdomain.com would have to be another TCP port, which defeats what you are trying to do.

Well cpuguyinwi,

That is not true with IIS 6.0... I have mutiple websites setup on IIS 6.0 (Win2k3 Server), and they all use TCP port 80. It accomplishes this by using "Host Headers" which means that it directs traffic to each website hosted on IIS 6.0 by which website is being requested... it's really kinda slick when I figured out how to set the Host header for each site.
You can easily host intranet.yourdomain.com and thisrocks.yourdomain.com, both on TCP port 80.
And, for each site you can tell which NIC for the website to use... it asks you when you setup the website initially, or you can change the NIC you use for the site later under the website properties.


Snow

[NooNoo]

Snowbound can you put up an idiots guide on how to do that? I would love to give it a go, but I don't have time to research it.

[thirdfey]

Snowbound can you put up an idiots guide on how to do that? I would love to give it a go, but I don't have time to research it.

The info is on the MS knowledge base http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=324287

[NooNoo]

hmmm I read that, but thought the port would have to be unique each time - maybe I shouldn't drink and read

[LaSERCHiPs]

This was available in 2000 (IIS 5.0) as well

I have been hosting 5-6 web sites for a while...Although Now that i am upgrading to 2003 and IIS 6.0 - sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't...Everyday is different...Flake'e server...(recently changed locations perhaps it didn't enjoy the move??)

[peon]

I know this topic is a bit old, but you also have the option to assign more than one ip address to one nic. We have 10 ip addresses assigned to one nic here and each runs a different web site.