Re: Default Gateway Setting not set after Reboot
From: David Morgan (david_at_davidmorgan.me.uk)
Date: 08/05/04
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Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 10:19:56 +0100
Here's the MS Article for W2K. Pretty similar to the XP Article.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;157025&Product=win2000
"Phillip Windell" <@.> wrote in message
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> "David Morgan" <david@davidmorgan.me.uk> wrote in message
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> > With the DFG removed from NIC2 I get no reply to a ping. According to
> you,
> > this should come back directly from NIC2 (maybe via NIC1). It does not.
> It
>
> That's why I said in the last post that it matters where you are located
> when you try it. If you are pinging from machine in the same subnet as
NIC2
> then it will respond. If you are not, then "routing" must be enabled
before
> the NIC2 will communicate across subnets.
>
> > I should obviously point out again that I am running W2K, not XP.
>
> That doesn't matter.
>
> > (as there's no point going through a
> > firewall for requests initiated from the server or for replies),
>
> That doesn't make any sense.
>
> > although I
> > am convinced as per my situation above, if I remove the default gateway
on
> > one of the cards it will no longer respond at all.
>
> We are wasting our time here. You are getting this kind of behavior from
the
> machine because you have an over all bad design and are "covering" it with
> bad techniques.
>
> In the simplest form I can make it:...
>
> Barring a few extreme and unusual situations, there are only two reasons
to
> put more that one nic in a machine:
>
> 1. It is being used as a NAT device or Proxy Server
> 2. It is being used as a LAN Router
>
> In either case:
> A. RRAS must be running on the machine with "routing" enabled
>
> B. Only *one* Default Gateway exists.
>
> C. If there are "alternate" DFGs (for things like Dead Gateway
> Detection) then they must be all in the same subnet and be assigned at the
> same NIC as the normal Default Gateway.
>
> D. All other possible routes are handled by using Static Routes in the
> Routing Table or by the use of Routing Protocols such as RIP, IGRP, etc.
>
> E. If the machine acting as a Router is in the center of a "hub &
spoke"
> design, operating as a single Router, then there is no need for any Static
> Routes.
>
> --
>
> Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
> www.wandtv.com
>
>
>
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