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I’m running windows xp pro with two network cards. One is for Internet
connection and the other one is for my network IP (gateway). I sometime use
this computer to run a game server but I always have to disable the Network
ip nic for my run server to pick up the Internet IP. Is there a way to
priorities the Internet Ip over the network Ip?

kristopher
 
sounds like routing issue. quoted from http://www.ChicagoTech.net
Routing order

If you have two NICs in the same subnet on one w2k/xp computer, you wonder
which NIC is been used as primary NIC to access the Internet. In most cases,
when adding the second NIC on a w2k/xp computer, the first one is the
primary NIC. You may change the order by going to Advanced menu of the
Network Connection>Advanced Settings>Adapter and Bindings. If the settings
doesn't work (by default, the faster NIC will be chooses as primary NIC) or
if you want to override the settings, you can assign metric # manually by
going to the Properties of the Network Connection>the Properties of the
Network Connection>Advanced.


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It worked well. Thank you.

Another question which has nothing to do my last one. I'm a student and I've
always enjoyed trouble shooting computer and network problems. I had plans to
go to school in computers but have put it on hold because I'm not sure if
there are allot of job out there in network admin or network security which
where I would like to be. Do you know if there are jobs out there for
students once they've graduated?

thanks,
kristopher
 
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