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I am trying to connect to two different routers through
one NIC. One router connects to a major company's
Intranet and the other connects to Internet via an ADSL
Router. How do I configure Windows XP Pro to work,
effectively accessing the Internet and the Intranet
through two separate routers?

Martin
 
"Martin" said:
I am trying to connect to two different routers through
one NIC. One router connects to a major company's
Intranet and the other connects to Internet via an ADSL
Router. How do I configure Windows XP Pro to work,
effectively accessing the Internet and the Intranet
through two separate routers?

Martin
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If I understand correctly, you want to use the ADSL router to connect
to the Internet and the other router to connect to the company
Intranet.

To the best of my knowledge, that isn't possible with one NIC.
Install a second NIC and connect each router to its own NIC. That
will create two LAN connections in the Network Connections folder.
Specify a "metric" for each network connection, giving a lower number
to the one that connects to the ADSL router. To assign a metric to a
network connection:

1. Open the Network Connections folder.
2. Right click the desired connection.
3. Click Properties | Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).
4. Click Properties | Advanced.
5. Un-check "Automatic metric".
6. Enter a number between 1 and 9999 for the "Interface metric".

Check with the company's technical staff to make sure that your
configuration is OK. Some companies don't allow separate Internet
connections on computers connected to their Intranet, since the
Internet connection is outside the company firewall and could be a
security risk.
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Perhaps this is possible.

You'd need to know what subnets the Corporate Intranet uses, and manually
create routes to those subnets pointing to the company's router. Then
leave the default route pointing at the Internet router.

We'd need much more detail to give a definitive answer.

I'd want to know: the IP address(es) of the machine, and where they were
assigned from;
The IP addresses of the 2 routers;
The IP address ranges used on the Company Intranet.

Like I say, it's possible we could make this work.

And as Steve says, there may be issues with company policy having
simultneous intranet and Internet connections. This is a potential leak
path past the company's firewall.

Is there not Internet access via the company's network and firewall? That
would probably be a better solution.
 
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Perhaps this is possible.

You'd need to know what subnets the Corporate Intranet uses, and manually
create routes to those subnets pointing to the company's router. Then
leave the default route pointing at the Internet router.

We'd need much more detail to give a definitive answer.

I'd want to know: the IP address(es) of the machine, and where they were
assigned from;
The IP addresses of the 2 routers;
The IP address ranges used on the Company Intranet.

Like I say, it's possible we could make this work.

And as Steve says, there may be issues with company policy having
simultneous intranet and Internet connections. This is a potential leak
path past the company's firewall.

Is there not Internet access via the company's network and firewall? That
would probably be a better solution.

--
Best Regards,
Ron Lowe
MS-MVP Windows Networking

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Hi,

The ADSL Internet Router IP = 192.168.34.150
Subnet = 255.255.255.224

The Company's Intranet Router = 192.168.34.129
Subnet = 255.255.255.224

Static Assignment of IP on workstations ranging from
192.168.34.131 to 192.168.34.157

Intranet IP's = 150.45.57.150 and 150.45.57.150

The default Gateway = 192.168.34.150 metric 10
on XP machines

second gateway = 192.168.34.129 Metric 15 on XP
machines

To throw another spanner in the works they have SAPGUI
logging onto an IP of 132.147.20.26 across the Intranet.
I have this listed in the host file.

I currently have this working on a Win98 machine, WinNT
works ok, but have difficulty on WinXP.

The XP machines work one moment then not the next.


Martin
 
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