Topic: Daisychaining servers ???

[Rick]

Has anyone ever tried to daisychain servers ?
E-smith1 takes input from my Satellite Conenction (which has a static IP) & performs its function as a gateway & provides DHCP to my internal network. What I am attemping to do is configure another E-smith unit E-smith2 to obtain an IP from E-smith1 & Assign IP Adresses to my classroom network. Will this work or am I wasting time  ???? I have tried adding a router before E-smith1 to setup multiple IPs for the two gateways but most routers are limited to 1.5Mbs & my sat. feed is 12.5Mbs .... Big degredation in performance !!!

Any ideas or input would be appreciated.
Thanks ,
Richard Elizondo
361-319-8324

[Jochen Hoegerl]

I don't know If this works but...

Have you tried to give your external nic from esmith2 a static IP from
the esmith1 IP-Range ( should be 192.168.1.2 -192.168.1.64 if you
kept the standard setup ) and configure esmith2 to use 192.168.2.x
on its internal net.

jochen

[Geoff Bennion]

Yes e-smith behind e-smith will work, just set e-smith2 as dedicated, with external IP as DHCP, then plug it into e-smith1's network.

No problem.....

[Rick]

I tried that but with no success ???? I would think it should work also, but it did not? Any other ideas ?

[Moi]

Sounds like you are, in reality, trying to segregate networks. If that is the case, why not simply install a 3rd and 4th ... nth network card in e-smith1 and simply assign a different subnet mask to each of them? That way, all persons on each subnet can get out to the internet but are only local to their particular network segment.

If however, you are determined to have 2 or more boxes, I have sucessfully done this too.

                                                       SWITCH for better security
                                                        or
  Internet >> NIC1 Box1 >> NIC2  >> HUB  >> NIC1 Box2  >> NIC2 >> LAN2
                                                        V                                            
                                                        V
                                                     LAN1
  LAN1 Netmask 255.255.240.0
  LAN2 Netmask 255.255.255.0
or
  LAN1 Address range 192.168.n.n
  LAN2 Address range 10.0.n.n

Looking at the above diagram, it makes more sense to use my original suggestion and simply add extra network cards to the 1st box.