Assign a program to a network card

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I have a computer (Windows XP SP 2) that has two network cards. I want to
assign just one program on the computer to use the secondary network card.
How can I do that? Any help is welcomed.

Thanks,
John
 
"John said:
I have a computer (Windows XP SP 2) that has two network cards. I want to
assign just one program on the computer to use the secondary network card.
How can I do that? Any help is welcomed.

Thanks,
John
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I'm sorry, but it isn't possible to assign a program to a network
card.

Windows decides which network card to use by looking at the IP address
that a program is trying to access and comparing the address to
entries in the TCP/IP routing table. So, for example, if you know the
IP addresses of your E-mail servers (POP3, SMTP), you can create
routing table entries for them that specify a particular network card.
But, if you have more than one E-mail account, you might need separate
routing table entries for each account.

You can see the contents of the routing table by typing one of these
lines in a command prompt window:

route print (writes routing table to the screen)
route print >route.txt (writes routing table to file "route.txt")

The "route add" command creates routing table entries.
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