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Lets imagine 3 computers (windows2003) each with 2 network cards. They are
connected from one side using the first lan card (10.1.1.x) and from the
second side using lan2 card (10.1.2.x). So the first computer has two network
addresses: 10.1.1.1 and 10.1.2.1
From server no 1 I can get to server2 using IP 10.1.1.2 or 10.1.2.2. But
which ip addressed will be used when I will get to the second server by its
name SERVER2?
Can I configure it, so that it alway use 10.1.1.x addresses?

Thanks
Przemo
 
not sure why do you want to use two NICs, but it sounds like routing order issue. quoted from http://www.ChicagoTech.net
Routing order

If you have two NICs in the same subnet on one w2k/xp computer, you wonder which NIC is been used as primary NIC to access the Internet. In most cases, when adding the second NIC on a w2k/xp computer, the first one is the primary NIC. You may change the order by going to Advanced menu of the Network Connection>Advanced Settings>Adapter and Bindings. If the settings doesn't work (by default, the faster NIC will be chooses as primary NIC) or if you want to override the settings, you can assign metric # manually by going to the Properties of the Network Connection>the Properties of the Network Connection>Advanced.


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Lets imagine 3 computers (windows2003) each with 2 network cards. They are
connected from one side using the first lan card (10.1.1.x) and from the
second side using lan2 card (10.1.2.x). So the first computer has two network
addresses: 10.1.1.1 and 10.1.2.1
From server no 1 I can get to server2 using IP 10.1.1.2 or 10.1.2.2. But
which ip addressed will be used when I will get to the second server by its
name SERVER2?
Can I configure it, so that it alway use 10.1.1.x addresses?

Thanks
Przemo
 
Przemo said:
Lets imagine 3 computers (windows2003) each with 2 network cards. They are
connected from one side using the first lan card (10.1.1.x) and from the
second side using lan2 card (10.1.2.x). So the first computer has two network
addresses: 10.1.1.1 and 10.1.2.1
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From server no 1 I can get to server2 using IP 10.1.1.2 or 10.1.2.2. But
which ip addressed will be used when I will get to the second server by its
name SERVER2?
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The one to which the name resolves.

Can I configure it, so that it alway use 10.1.1.x addresses?
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Yes, if you make sure the name ONLY resolves to that address
always.


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Also note, that it is impractical to have two Windows machine
NICs on the same subnet/segment/"broadcast domain".

Unless you use some form of "teaming NICs" this will offer
very little if any advantage.
 
Tnaks.
But could tou tell me where and how to control way the system resolves names?

Przemo
 
Przemo said:
Tnaks.
But could tou tell me where and how to control way the system resolves
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names?

Well, there are two basic name resolution mechanisms
which interact with each other sometimes but are used
separately for distinct types of applications (including
system features):

Internet names (e.g., DNS)
NetBIOS

DNS name resolution includes: the Host file and the
DNS server set for the client ( and maybe help from
NetBIOS.)

NetBIOS includes Broadcasts, WINS server lookup,
LMHosts file (and maybe help from DNS.)
 
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