Strong host model in Vista

[Guest]

Hi -
I know that Vista supports the strong host model. Is there any way to
disable it?

I have two machines host1 and host2 (both running Vista) that are connected
via Ethernet. They are able to ping each other. I create a virtual NIC in
host1 (using the sample driver NDIS Virtual Miniport Driver). I assign an IP
address to this virtual NIC. In host2, I create a route to host1's Virtual
NIC's IP with host1's physical NIC IP as the gateway. Now I try to ping
host1 from host2. It does not work. I suspect it is due to Vista following
the strong host model. The same scenario works if I replace Vista with XP.

Does the strong host model mean that we can never communicate to a machine
with the destination IP as its virtual NIC's IP address?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Anand

 

[Rudy Doster]

About strong/weak host model, try the netsh commands :

netsh interface ipv4 set interface (weakhostsend/weakhostreceive)

-RD-