well this week has been a very busy week from the network perspective.
What have we done?
monday we proved we could separate the home from the corporate network
Tuesday we made vpn access from the outside world work.
Weds we made email/vpn work from anywhere in the world
Thursday (today) we were asked, if we could make the primary school, link to the high school but keep it a separate network. We've been working on this project for weeks, but alas, it was all working until we found that Active Directory did not work on a Windows server that was dual homed and had it's default gateway facing the opposite side.
So.. being that we had to use Isa2000 on this older server, we had to solve this issue today.
Only catch is, school started yesterday, and we've run out of time.
All was well until we came across this odd issue. So... we were looking at a major network reconfiguration, but we had 2 periods to do it in . 8:30-9:45 and 9:45-10:30.
Could we do it?
Well, it required we get a router which we didn't have, disable the second interface on a windows server, and rewire everything.
We don't have a router, so we used a spare firewall, netscreen 10.
Can you wipe out a firewall, rebuild it, configure it, and get it all working in under 45 minutes?
Well I'm here to say, that yes we can. And we weren't even fully staffed because my co-worker has a bandaged up wrist!!! (-;
It was a fire drill for sure, but it got the juices going.
Anyway, it's all working now, albeit we're using a fw simply as a router... but hey, beggars can't be choosers.
