2 NIC's = No Internet?

[Guest]

Have a Windows 2000 Server running our website. The server has two nics. One
is for the website, and the other is internal access. The website nic uses
different IP, different Subnet Mask, and different Default Gateway-than the
second nic for internal use.

What I'm trying to do is run Microsoft Update. But each time I do so, IE6
has no idea which NIC to use. I'd like it to use the internal NIC. How can
I force it to do so, or redirect it to this NIC.

Thanks

 

[Guest]

You have to set the default route to your internal NIC.

Do a route print and look at the results. You likely have to default routes
to the INTERNET with the same metric value.

You have to delete the default route that specifies your Website's NIC, then
add it back with a higher Metric. That way the default will be for your
INTERNAL
NIC and if that fails the secondary route will be through your Website's NIC.

That should do it. If I haven't thought of something, please correct me.

Oh, you will use "route delete 0.0.0.0 MASK 0.0.0.0 <IP_ADD OF WEBSITE NIC>"
Then do a "route add 0.0.0.0 MASK 0.0.0.0 <IP_ADD OF WEBSITE NIC> metric 2"

 

[Guest]

Do I need to stop the website while I do this? Restart the machine? Is
there a utility that will do this, or is this strictly a command line change.

Thanks for your help Joe!

 

[Guest]

Courtney,

You don't need to stop the web service. I am sure that there are utilities
out
there that will do the same thing, but the command line works pretty well.
Just watch out for typos.

Let me know how it goes.