Two Nic one Server

[aprotosimaki]

Originally Posted by AboveTheLogic

You mention that the windows machine is not a nat..

BUT RRAS does indeed support NAT, and I've done it that way before... so in that case I'm thinking the static route will not be necessary.

I have not suggested RRAS does not support NAT. Instead I have suggested a network deployment that does not use NAT services on the Windows router and, because it does not, it therefore requires the use of a static network route, a configurable option supported on most routers. We seem to be talking past each other here.

But you are correct, if I had suggested using NAT on the Windows server, the use of static network route is not necessary for the reasons I described above.

Originally Posted by AboveTheLogic

As for putting a windows machine on the Internet, I found it to be fine as long as you have good firewall software, like comodo.

As a general rule I never allow production servers to be publicly accessible, but that is me.

[AboveTheLogic]

I agree it is best practice, but a good firewall will protect it just as well IMO.