Network setup help

[liamcrane]

Evening all

Just wanted to ask a quick question before i start setting up my new mini test network environment at home.

At the moment my current setup is I have my Billion router (192.168.1.254) handling everything DHCP, DNS etc. I have set the DHCP range on the router to 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.105 so i can have 6 devices on my network with a DHCP address. Any other devices on my network will have a static IP.

I am looking to setup a domain controller on server 2008 r2 for test purposes as i am studying Servers at the moment and Im reading that its best to let the domain controller handle DHCP, DNS etc. I am going to put 3 Laptop devices (all wireless connected) onto my domain running windows 7 pro. I am also going to have 2 devices My desktop machine and my work Laptop not on the domain (hard wired to the router).

My main question is if i disable DHCP on the Router and let the new Domain controller handle this as well as DNS will this stop my 2 devices not on the domain from connecting to the internet? Will i also have to change the DNS servers on the router to the address of the domain controller?

Sorry if i sound kind of silly im just slowly working my way into this

Thanks guys hope you might be able to help

 

[tribz]

Set the server dhcp to give out 192.168.1.254 for the gateway. For Dns, set the dhcp to give out the ip address of the server.

On the server Dns snap in on the server, set the forwarders to be something like googles or opendns ip's

On the router, don't make any changes to the Dns as it won't be required.

Your non domain devices will then be given .254 for the gateway and also the ip of the server for the Dns. They will work fine using the server Dns.

 

[liamcrane]

Thanks so much for that mate i'll give that a go and see how i get on

Thanks again