Re: Switching between 2 internet connections
- From: Chuck <none@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 4 Oct 2005 12:40:03 -0500
On 4 Oct 2005 10:08:32 -0700, *email_address_deleted* wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have 2 NICs in my computer, connected to different networks with
>different internet connections (one for each network).
>
>Usually, my computer is connected to the internet through NIC 1 and
>network 1 (I checked it with tracert).
>
>Sometimes the connection to the internet in network 1 is down for
>whatever reason and i switch to the second lan by doing the following:
>1. I clean the routing table of windows xp, in CMD: "route -f"
>1. disable and enable TCP/IP in NIC 2, which adds a record to the
>routing table.
>
>In order to revert back to NIC 1, i repeat the same procedure for NIC
>1.
>
>My question is whether there is a cleaner way to do the same, maybe
>even make Windows somehow automatically detect that internet is down on
>network 1 and switch to network 2 (preferebly without writing scripts
>to modify Metrics and interfaces or so).
>
>Thanks.
Jonathan,
Try using the Automatic Metric feature in Windows XP. If you adjust the metric
so NIC 1 is preferable over NIC 2, and activate both NICs, you should use NIC 1
whenever it is online.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/have-laptop-will-travel.html#Dual>
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Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
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