Quick background
A small school is finally switching away from their WinXP computers, and because I'm the only one around who knows what an ethernet cable is, I've been asked to do it. I've learned a lot about AD in setting everything up, and I got great help from reddit too. Everything is now running smoothly, but there's an important request that I can't get working:
The problem
The teacher wants to be able to enable and disable internet access on the entire LAN. The students work offline most of the time, but require internet every now and then.
The current setup
The AD server is also DNS server and DHCP server. The server IP is 192.168.2.1, all AD clients are assigned IPs in te same subnet. There's an ISP router with its own DHCP built-in, on the 192.168.1.1 subnet. Ideally, I'd like to not turn off that DHCP server, because other staff connect directly to it. The teacher is on their own computer (logged into an AD teacher account), and as mentioned, it's this computer which should be able to switch the internet on or off.
What I've tried
Foolishly, I was hoping that simply putting two Ethernet adapters into the teacher computer and then bridging the local AD connection with the internet connection would do the trick. It doesn't. I also suspect that's not the safest way to go about it.
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