IE and two Network cards.

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In my office enviroment I have to work on one network that operates through a
slow sat. connection. I also have a t-1 line and would like to access the
internet through it. How can I tell IE which connection to make. Presently I
disable the office network so it will go out over the T-1, but this is a
pain, is their work around?
 
In my office enviroment I have to work on one network that operates through a
slow sat. connection. I also have a t-1 line and would like to access the
internet through it. How can I tell IE which connection to make. Presently I
disable the office network so it will go out over the T-1, but this is a
pain, is their work around?
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MSIE doesn't control the connection to use when there are two routes.
Routing is handled at a lower level than the browser, and the browser will
use the route defined in the routing table. MSIE always goes with the
default gateway, unless an alternate gateway is defined.
 
OK That makes since, but how do I change the default gateway?
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I have played around with the "route" command in a command prompt. Try
"route /?" for starters. I can't say that I have managed to change my
default gateway with this; but I have added a route with a different
gateway.

From a "route print" command:

===========================================================================
Interface List
0x1 ........................... MS TCP Loopback interface
0x2 ...44 45 53
54 00 00 ...... PPP Adapter.
0x3 ...00 50 77 01 51 b7 ...... usb-usb
network bridge adapter
0x4 ...00 10 b5 77 e6 46 ...... HP EN1207D-TX 10/100
Family Adapter

==========================================================================
===========================================================================
Active Routes:
Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.102.1 192.168.102.100 1
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
172.29.0.0 255.255.0.0 172.29.61.1 172.29.61.1 1
172.29.61.1 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
172.29.255.255 255.255.255.255 172.29.61.1 172.29.61.1 1
192.168.102.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.102.100 192.168.102.100 1
192.168.102.100 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
192.168.102.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.102.100 192.168.102.100 1
204.1.224.0 255.255.255.224 192.168.102.3 192.168.102.100 1
224.0.0.0 224.0.0.0 172.29.61.1 172.29.61.1 1
224.0.0.0 224.0.0.0 192.168.102.100 192.168.102.100 1
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.102.100 2 1
Default Gateway: 192.168.102.1
===========================================================================
Persistent Routes:
None

Scan down the "gateway" column, and find "192.168.102.3"; compare it with
the "Default Gateway" address. One is my normal DSL connection through a
Netgear router, but the other is a dial-up connection through an SMC
router. Packets to the "Network Destination" IP address for that entry will
go through the dial-up modem on the SMC Barricade 7004BR instead of through
the DSL modem on the Netgear FR114P.

Again, check out "route /?" at a command prompt.
 
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