Greetings, I have recently started a computer course in which we are gonig through DNS/AD as well as new OS's and I have always been curious by nature (which is what got me involved in computer support in the first place) and I have decided to reconfigure my home network. Presently, I have a Linksys WRT54G router connected to my DSL modem and provides unlimited, unrestriced access to my Home Server via Ethernet, my PC (Darin-PC, XP-x64) via Ethernet as well as my three younger siblings who share two pc's (Alex-PC as well as Girls-PC) via Wifi. The problem I am having is that I would like to install a DNS server to help with local caching of addresses, AD environment to restrict access on siblibs pc's (they are between 7-12 years old, want to protect them as well as increse my own understanding) and setup a proxy server. Therefore my present setup is not what I need and have recently made the following plan: 1) Add second NIC to Server 2) Connect all pc's to router and disable firewall 3) Connect Server to Internet directly and setup proxy as well as ISA Firewall 4) use Server as PDC/DNS to provide security as well as caching of web pages Yes, it is my understanding that the rule of thumb is to always "keep it simple" and that this setup is quite unnecessary in my environement, please do not remind me of such, for this is only for experimental purposes and help me learn more than I already know, for that is how one learns, not by reading but by doing. My questions are: 1) Please help and advise where changes are needed and administration would be simpler (Domain environment required for scenario to work) 2) How can I have a proxy that prohibits access to Internet without manually entering information in browser client (ie: IE, MSN, etc) 3) Though some may call this deluded, please do help and understand. I would certainly do the same and believe in doing unto others as you would have them do unto you. Therefore thank you all in advance and please provide information or direct me to source of reference where applicable. Thank you for reading this becasue thoguh I have used google in the past many, many times, I am a poor researcher and have difficulty in leading myself, therefore come seeking wisdom and counsel. Blessings to all! Darin Darin Luckie

1) Add second NIC to Server [good] 2) Connect all pc's to router and disable firewall [bad] 3) Connect Server to Internet directly and setup proxy as well as ISA Firewall [ISA does both] 4) use Server as PDC/DNS to provide security as well as caching of web pages [you misunderstand dns - this is not what its for. ISA/proxy caches web pages] You want modem<>router<>nic1-server- nic2<>switch<>pcs. Your setup doesn't have the pcs going thru the server. If you want to control access via ISA or 3rd party proxy they have to route thru the server. Hope this helps. Imagine the power of knowing how to internet search http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Teachin...