As a network administrator, it is your job to ensure that the clients obtain the correct configuration from DHCP, as described in Chapter 5. Custom configuration is the focus of this chapter. This window is almost identical to the one shown in Figure Highlight a component and select Properties to configure that component. Of course, initial installation is not the only time you might want to define or modify the configuration for a network interface.
To configure the interface for a running system, open the Network Connections applet in the Control Panel. You can use the New Connections Wizard to add a new interface configuration. To modify the configuration of an existing interface, select that interface from the Network Connections menu. By default, the first Ethernet interface is called Local Area Connection.
If your system has interface names of this type, you can rename the interfaces to something more meaningful in exactly the same way that you would rename a file. Simply right-click on the interface in the Network Connections menu, select Rename from the right-click menu, and enter a new, more descriptive name.
Selecting a network interface from the Network Connections menu opens the Adapter Status window , which contains two tabs: General and Support.
Selecting the Support tab shows the current interface configuration and states whether it was manually entered or provided by DHCP. Figure shows the Support tab. The system shown in Figure was manually configured. Clicking the Repair button on a manually configured computer causes the system to flush various network caches and to reregister with DNS and WINS, if that is appropriate.
If this system had been configured using DHCP, clicking Repair would do the same things done for a manually configured system and, in addition, would cause the system to renew its address lease. Clicking the Details button on the Support tab shows a few more details of the configuration. Figure shows the Network Connection Details window opened by the Details button. The General tab of the Adapter Status window tells you whether or not the interface is running, how long it has been running, its rated speed, and the number of packets sent and received by the interface.
This tab has two buttons:. Use the Disable button to down the interface. This can be useful during troubleshooting. Normally, of course, the interface is left up and running. To reenable the interface after it has been disabled, simply select the interface from the Network Connections menu and it will automatically be reenabled.
Disabling and reenabling the interface resets the connection time and the number of packets sent and received. The Properties button opens the Adapter Properties window , which has three tabs:. When you select the checkbox, the Settings button becomes active, which allows you to select the level of security logging the system will use, the types of services that will be offered to remote users, and the types of ICMP packets to which the system will respond.
The ICF is covered in Chapter 9. This tab allows you to select and configure IEEE Configuring authentication, including EAP, is covered in Chapter 8. This tab allows you to configure the network adapter device driver and the network protocols used by this interface.
This is the focus of this chapter. Figure shows the General tab of the Adapter Properties window. Clicking the Configure button opens a window that allows you to configure the network adapter hardware. The level of hardware configuration offered depends upon the capabilities of the hardware and the associated device driver. The tabs displayed will vary from device to device. Figure shows an example for a specific D-Link Ethernet card.
The properties window shown in Figure displays five tabs. The Advanced tab lists configuration properties specific to this device. Another Ethernet card would have different settings on the Advanced tab, if it offered an Advanced tab at all. The Driver tab displays information specific to the driver for this device. The information displayed on the Driver tab varies from manufacturer to manufacturer.
However, the essential buttons on this tab should be the same for any network device. The key Driver tab buttons are as follows:. This button starts the Hardware Update Wizard. Use it to install a new driver for this device. Use this button to return to the previously installed driver if the new driver does not function properly. Use this button only if you intended to completely remove the driver for this device. Do not use this to simply disable the device. Windows Server ships drivers for numerous network adapter cards bundled with the operating system.
The drivers are of high quality, but things change. Bugs are discovered and drivers are improved. Because of these changes you may find yourself clicking the Update Driver button. Before you do, make sure you have the latest driver available for your adapter:. These are commonly posted, but they should only be installed on a production server after a very thorough evaluation.
If you use Windows Update, it can automatically notify you when a new driver is available for your network adapter. APM allows for two-way power control:. The PC can shut off the device to conserve power when the device is not in use. This is generally not an important feature for Ethernet cards because they consume very little power. The device can bring the PC out of standby mode. This is a more interesting feature for a network device.
When the user leaves work and places the PC in a low-power standby mode, this feature allows the PC to continue collecting data from the network. Of course, this feature only saves power if the PC is normally left running at full power in order to collect data from the network. The Resources tab lists the hardware resources used by the network device and notifies you if any hardware conflicts exist.
PC adapter cards require up to four distinct hardware configuration parameters. Of the four configuration values, IRQ assignment traditionally caused the most trouble because there were a limited number of interrupts and interrupts could not be shared. Interrupts on the original PC bus were edge triggered, which means that the transition of the signal on the IRQ line caused the system to detect an interrupt.
Specifically, IBM defined the signal as a transition from low to high. An IRQ could not be reliably shared because when more than one card attempted to use a single IRQ line the interrupt could be lost. With PnP, the adapter, the bus and the operating system cooperate to find and assign unused hardware values, thus eliminating conflicts. COM software collects the hardware information for the Windows Server system. If a conflict is found, the Resources tab lists the device that conflicts with the network adapter.
One possible cause of a conflict is an adapter that allows manual configuration that has been incorrectly configured. The problem is not necessarily in the network card. It could be caused by misconfiguration of the conflicting adapter.
This is the same Help and Support Center that is available from the Start menu. See Chapter 14 for network-oriented troubleshooting advice. Network adapters do not need any manual configuration for most systems.
Most of the time, Windows Server correctly identifies the adapter and installs a properly configured driver for the adapter. The Configure button is useful but rarely needed.
Refer back to Figure The window in the middle of the properties dialog shown in Figure lists the network components used for the network connection. Three network components are listed:. All three of these are described in Chapter 3. This is the protocol we will be manually configuring in this chapter. Directly under the list of network components are three buttons: Install, Uninstall, and Properties.
Click the Install button to install a network component. Three component types are offered:. A client component is the client side of some network service.
The Client for Microsoft Networks component described above is one example. A service component is the server side of a network service. A protocol component is a network communications protocol. Of course, the client and service components also contain protocol elements, so the distinction is somewhat arbitrary. By default, the Select Network Protocol window offers the following five protocol component selections:. This is the IPv6 protocol described in Chapter 2. The Uninstall button removes an unneeded network component.
To remove a component, simply highlight the component name in the list box and click Uninstall. You will be asked to verify the removal. Click Yes and the network component is removed.
The Properties button is used to configure a protocol. Protocol configuration is the principal topic of this chapter. This tab is used to manually define the basic configuration or to select automatic configuration from the DHCP server.
DHCP is a key component of a manageable, reliable, and efficient network. Despite the label on this option button, it does much more than just obtain the IP address automatically.
Of course, as the administrator of the network it is your responsibility to set up the DHCP server as described in Chapter 5. But your work relieves end users of configuration responsibilities and reduces the number of user configuration errors that you have to fix.
The configuration steps described in the next section are not needed for the majority of systems on a network that uses DHCP. Below are the manual configuration fields on the IP address portion of the General tab:.
Enter a valid IP address for this computer, using dotted decimal format. This is a single address from your address range. Enter the appropriate subnet mask, again using dotted decimal format. By default, this field will use the natural mask for the address entered above. If you subnet, you should place your subnet mask here. If you do not subnet, use the prefix-length assigned with the address block to determine the mask.
Chapter 2 covers subnets and address masks. Enter the IP address for the default router in dotted decimal format. Chapter 2 provides background on routing and the use of default gateways, and there is more on routing and gateways later in this chapter. Of course, before manually entering data into any of these fields you must know exactly what you are going to enter. The network administrator is responsible for making and communicating decisions about overall network configuration. If you are creating a new network, you will have to make some basic decisions.
One of these decisions is how to choose a network number for your new network, which is the topic of the next section. If you already have IP addresses for your network, you can skip this section. First, you must decide how many hosts on a new network will be fully accessible from the Internet. Many new networks attach to the Internet indirectly so that access into the new network from other Internet networks is limited.
Users on the new network can access remote Internet hosts but remote users cannot directly access all of the hosts on the indirectly connected network. Because the hosts on this network are not accessible to users in the outside world, they do not require public IP addresses. Only the subset of systems exposed to the outside world requires public IP addresses. Therefore, the network administrator of this network can select a network address from RFC , Address Allocation for Private Internets.
The private network numbers are The pros and cons of using a network address from RFC are covered in Chapter 2 , where private network numbers are discussed in detail. But, in general, if you can use a private network number, you should. If we are using only RIP version 2 throughout our network, and the transport medium will be Ethernet, it is best to use RIP version 2 multicast for the Outbound packet protocol: drop-down selection and to ensure only RIP version 2 operation, select RIP version 2 only from the Incoming protocol packet: drop-down list as shown in Figure 8.
Repeat this process for the other Windows Server router that will be advertising RIP version 2 on your network. Windows Server Brain Affiliate Marketing current. EasyProfiter Software. Five Minute Profit Sites.
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Before we begin, make sure you have two network interfaces per server available to you. For convenience, it helps to properly name your network connections through the Network Connections folder. Your IP addresses should be configured to match the addresses in Figure 7. Select Next to begin the configuration process. Remember that if Routing and Remote Access has been previously enabled, you will have to disable it before you can perform this step to invoke the wizard.
Select your WAN or Internet interface on the next page while keeping the default setting to enable security, as shown in Figure 7. From the Address Range Assignment page, select New Ensure that the addresses in the range will not conflict with the existing DHCP server address pool. Click Next. Select Next, keeping the default of No, use Routing and Remote Access to authenticate connection requests. To configure a demand-dial interface, select Network Interfaces from the left pane of the Routing and Remote Access management console.
Click Action New Demand-dial Interface Select Next, then type in an Interface name in the next dialog box to describe this demand-dial VPN interface. In this example, we will go with the default of Automatic selection followed by Next.
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