How do I force use of a particular NIC

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I have 3 servers each with 2 NICs. To make the network simple, imagine that
1 NIC is on a 10MB backbone (Class C). The other NIC is 1000MB and forms a
small network with only these 3 servers (192.168.0.x).

Server A has the C:\ drive of B mapped as F:. The app requires a mapped
drive. The app and it's data must be in the same directory.

Server A runs an application from Server B in a Terminal Services session.
How do I set up the servers so that application is always loaded through the
1000MB NIC?? In other words, how do I force data through the 1000MB NIC to
find Drive F:
 
Did you test with a static route with the IF parameter ?

I imagine that you have to make this config on the source and destination
server (otherwise the answer could come by the other card).

Use netmon to see if everything works fine

I hope this is a good advice

Regards
 
Help me out here, Frederic... I can't find any reference to an IF parameter.

Please point me to a document explaining what it is and how to use it.

And Thanks for replying to my other post on the ras_routing newsgroup. I
apologize for using a different email address for one reply, but this is all
the same problem. I tried to describe it differently/simpler.

Yes.. I'm using only the first "R" = Routing.

Thanks again...
~Joe

FE-FR said:
Did you test with a static route with the IF parameter ?

I imagine that you have to make this config on the source and destination
server (otherwise the answer could come by the other card).

Use netmon to see if everything works fine

I hope this is a good advice

Regards
--
FE (MVP ISA)
(e-mail address removed)
You plan to implement Quarantine on ISA 2004 ?
Check this : http://www.esnouf.net/programs/QSS/qssinaction/QssInAction.htm
Click to expand...
 
J Porter said:
I have 3 servers each with 2 NICs. To make the network simple, imagine that
1 NIC is on a 10MB backbone (Class C). The other NIC is 1000MB and forms a
small network with only these 3 servers (192.168.0.x).
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I hope that means they are each in a different subnet.
How do I set up the servers so that application is always loaded through the
1000MB NIC?? In other words, how do I force data through the 1000MB NIC to
find Drive F:
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You don't "choose" the nic to use. Normally you will access the App by
whatever Nic directly faces you or most directly faces you. App will respond
from either Nic.

The only Apps that you can "choose" the Nic are things like Websites in IIS
where they can each be bound to a specific IP#. But even in those cases you
still go via the Nic that directly (or most directly) faces you. If that
happens to be the wrong Nic then "routing" must be enabled on the machine so
the traffic can route "across" the machine from one Nic to the other. In
this situation you are using both Nics rather than only the one you
want,...so this doesn't really do what you want either.
 
I think you guys are barking up the wrong tree. Did you see my other reply?

--

Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com

J Porter said:
Help me out here, Frederic... I can't find any reference to an IF parameter.

Please point me to a document explaining what it is and how to use it.

And Thanks for replying to my other post on the ras_routing newsgroup. I
apologize for using a different email address for one reply, but this is all
the same problem. I tried to describe it differently/simpler.

Yes.. I'm using only the first "R" = Routing.

Thanks again...
~Joe

FE-FR said:
Did you test with a static route with the IF parameter ?

I imagine that you have to make this config on the source and destination
server (otherwise the answer could come by the other card).

Use netmon to see if everything works fine

I hope this is a good advice

Regards
--
FE (MVP ISA)
(e-mail address removed)
You plan to implement Quarantine on ISA 2004 ?
Check this : http://www.esnouf.net/programs/QSS/qssinaction/QssInAction.htm
Click to expand...
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