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    I was wondering if setting up the the WHS box as a router is possible??

    i mean i have an itx setup which has 2 onboard gigabit NIC..

    my plan was to get a gigabit switch and use the whs box as a router and make it easier for the network connectivity.

    Sunday, May 9, 2010 5:58 AM

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    As Microsoft has mentioned elsewhere, Vail doesn't currently support multiple NICs, and you may have problems if both of your NICs are active at the same time. This is supposed to be fixed in a future build. Even so, configuring it as a router is not going to be a supported use of Vail. It will probably fall in the realm of "It should work, but Microsoft doesn't test for it, support it, or recommend it."

    I wouldn't recommend it either; in the home a router is a device that sits on the edge of your network, which exposes it much more than it will be if it's behind a router. Bottom line: let your router do it's job, and let Vail do it's job, where those two jobs are not the same.

    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
    Sunday, May 9, 2010 1:18 PM
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    The challenge is there is no network based firewall included with the OS.  Routing and Remote Access can perform routing capabilities (although as Ken mentioned there is no multi-nic support in this beta), but the Windows Firewall is designed to protect the local box only, not a network, so inbound traffic for the network is simply passed through the RRAS capability without passing through a firewall.  So there is no software on Vail that can provide this functionality.
     
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    "Ken Warren" wrote in message news:3f233c38-5270-4c5d-aa69-61821548b78d...

    As Microsoft has mentioned elsewhere, Vail doesn't currently support multiple NICs, and you may have problems if both of your NICs are active at the same time. This is supposed to be fixed in a future build. Even so, configuring it as a router is not going to be a supported use of Vail. It will probably fall in the realm of "It should work, but Microsoft doesn't test for it, support it, or recommend it."

    I wouldn't recommend it either; in the home a router is a device that sits on the edge of your network, which exposes it much more than it will be if it's behind a router. Bottom line: let your router do it's job, and let Vail do it's job, where those two jobs are not the same.

    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
    Monday, May 10, 2010 4:02 PM
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    anyone knows how to do this???
    Sunday, May 9, 2010 8:05 AM
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    As Microsoft has mentioned elsewhere, Vail doesn't currently support multiple NICs, and you may have problems if both of your NICs are active at the same time. This is supposed to be fixed in a future build. Even so, configuring it as a router is not going to be a supported use of Vail. It will probably fall in the realm of "It should work, but Microsoft doesn't test for it, support it, or recommend it."

    I wouldn't recommend it either; in the home a router is a device that sits on the edge of your network, which exposes it much more than it will be if it's behind a router. Bottom line: let your router do it's job, and let Vail do it's job, where those two jobs are not the same.

    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
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    The challenge is there is no network based firewall included with the OS.  Routing and Remote Access can perform routing capabilities (although as Ken mentioned there is no multi-nic support in this beta), but the Windows Firewall is designed to protect the local box only, not a network, so inbound traffic for the network is simply passed through the RRAS capability without passing through a firewall.  So there is no software on Vail that can provide this functionality.
     
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    "Ken Warren" wrote in message news:3f233c38-5270-4c5d-aa69-61821548b78d...

    As Microsoft has mentioned elsewhere, Vail doesn't currently support multiple NICs, and you may have problems if both of your NICs are active at the same time. This is supposed to be fixed in a future build. Even so, configuring it as a router is not going to be a supported use of Vail. It will probably fall in the realm of "It should work, but Microsoft doesn't test for it, support it, or recommend it."

    I wouldn't recommend it either; in the home a router is a device that sits on the edge of your network, which exposes it much more than it will be if it's behind a router. Bottom line: let your router do it's job, and let Vail do it's job, where those two jobs are not the same.

    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
    Monday, May 10, 2010 4:02 PM
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    Is there any update on the Public Refresh of Vail to support multiple NIC's?  Also in this day of Bandwidth management from ISP's it would be a nice feature to have a slimed down RRAS or basic Proxy server to monitor and report on bandwidth usage.  Also taking this one small step further, this could give parents control of content from the internet to their kids/home guests.

    In the mean time, I will do some testing with use of multiple NIC's.

    -Eric

    Friday, August 27, 2010 3:19 PM