Dual LAN

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I have two Lan ports on my motherboard (gigabyte K8NS Pro) one is a Marvel
Yukon to my router, two a Intel 10/100/1000 Pro with a crossover cable to my
Win2K box (back up each other and file transfer.KVM). If the my Win2k box
is up and running when I boot the XP Pro box I can not get on the net. Is
there any way to make IE use just the marvel port in Win XP Pro?
Yeah I know just boot XP first, but if I do not access the web for a
while I get the same thing? I have set the Marvel to auto detect and have
the Intel set to static IP.
The kicker is I have web access but if I try and game online I loose the
connection. But Alt-Tab and I still have web access on the desktop.

Thank you
 
So why are you not connecting your win2k box to the router, direct.
That way each PC is independent, as it is they are not.
 
I am. they both have 10/100 (Local Area Connection) to a router. But I
have 10/100/1000 (Local Area Connection 2) with a cross over to connect them
together. If the Win2K box is on IE tries to the use the 10/100/1000 to
connect to the net instead of the 10/100 that's connected to the router. I
want Win XP Pro to use 10/100 everytime I connect to the internet if both
computers are on or not. That's all.
I use the 10/100/1000 to transfer files back and forth and to back up each
to the other. It really is allot faster then the 10/100.
 
3.5 or 35 mb try a couple of gb I usually have 2-4 gb at a shot. but do you
know how to make IE use one connection. the one I want it to use?
 
Bigdawg said:
3.5 or 35 mb try a couple of gb I usually have 2-4 gb at a shot. but
do you know how to make IE use one connection. the one I want it to
use?
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You can force the default gateway by changing the metric. Google for XP
change metric. It's a complicated subject. This will also change your to
pc's to talk to one another over the slower connection. I'm not sure but you
may be able to use the host file to force the two pc's to talk over tha
faster connection. You would have to set static IP's for both on the
10/100/1000 NICs then put each other's entry with that IP in the host file
on each pc. Not sure if this will work. I've never tried it.

Kerry
 
that's what I have set up now on the 10/100/1000 static between just the two
192.168.10.1 and 192.168.10.2 that works fine but they will still use the
10/100 sometimes also. its really odd on what they want to do

JD
 
Bigdawg said:
that's what I have set up now on the 10/100/1000 static between just
the two 192.168.10.1 and 192.168.10.2 that works fine but they will
still use the 10/100 sometimes also. its really odd on what they
want to do
JD
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You need to do the Google search for default metric and study up. It's a
complicated subject but yo should be able to get it working. XP tries to
figure out the fastest connection and then default to this connection. You
can override this by setting your own metric for each connection. What you
are trying to do is probably beyond the scope of what can be explained in a
newsgroup. It takes an understanding of how TCP/IP works, how gateways work,
how routing works (especially static routes) and how XP uses all of this.
Here's a start

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prcc_tcp_ilhs.asp

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=xp+routing+metric+multihomed&btnG=Google+Search

Kerry
 
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