Hello everyone!
We have purchased a new more powerful server to our office and would like to get rid of router which routes all internet traffic. We want server to act as router.
I will try to describe the main current network structure here, hope you will understand:
[INTERNET MODEM] -- [ROUTER] -- [SWITCH] -- [ZENTYAL SERVER]
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[ALL OTHER WORKSTATIONS]
We would like to get rid of the
router and directy put the cable coming from internet modem into
eth0. So that would be the external network interface.
eth1 would create internal network 10.0.1.0/24 and it would look like this (sorry for the interesting diagrams
):
[INTERNET MODEM] -- eth0 [ZENTYAL SERVER] eth1 -- [SWITCH]
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[ALL OTHER WORKSTATIONS]
I tried installing zentyal by selecting all gateway components and configuring eth0 as external with static ip's (provided by ISP) and configuring eth1 as static internal and assigning 10.0.1.3 and 255.255.255.0 netmask to it. After doing that I was able to access all allowed Zentyal services from internal network (by connecting my laptop and manually assigning 10.0.1.4/24 and zentyal DNS to it - just to test the internal network), BUT
had no internet connection! I was able to ping
www.hostname.com and ping 10.0.1.3, the Windows network status also said that there is internet connectivity, but no pages could be opened except Zentyal administration page (
https://10.0.1.3).
I also tried enabling transparent proxy, then very very slow traffic started to come trough (and then I broke something, so I'll try to reinstall it and try again), but I would like just to reroute the internet traffic to eth0 to eth1 with no proxy (I use non-transparent proxy for other reasons). What am I doing wrong? Also didn't get why the traffic was so slow with transparent proxy enabled (opening web page in 5-10 seconds)
The main point is get internet connection to work in internal networks by just rerouting it. The server has 2 network adapters, eth0 and eth1. If I cant do this then I'll have to stick with a router which tends to hang 1-2 times a month. I would also like the monitoring options I can get if I use Zentyal as router.
Thanks!