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problem with dual network ports
Windows XP service pack 3
my PC has two network cards. One for general internet access (first port) and another (second port) for data collection from another device. I have to collect data on the second port, I can't do it on the first port. The second port ip settings are just ip address and subnet mask, it has no default gateway or dns settings. Problem is my PC sometimes 'chooses' the second network port and I don't get any internet access. Is there a way to configure the pc so that it only chooses the first network port for general internet and network and ignores the other one? Thanks for any help. |
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problem with dual network ports
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Windows XP service pack 3 my PC has two network cards. One for general internet access (first port) and another (second port) for data collection from another device. I have to collect data on the second port, I can't do it on the first port. The second port ip settings are just ip address and subnet mask, it has no default gateway or dns settings. Problem is my PC sometimes 'chooses' the second network port and I don't get any internet access. Is there a way to configure the pc so that it only chooses the first network port for general internet and network and ignores the other one? Thanks for any help. You can have quite fine control if you use the command-line "route" command. Start by doing a "route print" and then consider "route add". Phil, London |
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problem with dual network ports
tg wrote:
Windows XP service pack 3 my PC has two network cards. One for general internet access (first port) and another (second port) for data collection from another device. I have to collect data on the second port, I can't do it on the first port. The second port ip settings are just ip address and subnet mask, it has no default gateway or dns settings. Problem is my PC sometimes 'chooses' the second network port and I don't get any internet access. Is there a way to configure the pc so that it only chooses the first network port for general internet and network and ignores the other one? Thanks for any help. You can have quite fine control if you use the command-line "route" command. Start by doing a "route print" and then consider "route add". Phil, London |
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problem with dual network ports
tg wrote:
Windows XP service pack 3 my PC has two network cards. One for general internet access (first port) and another (second port) for data collection from another device. I have to collect data on the second port, I can't do it on the first port. The second port ip settings are just ip address and subnet mask, it has no default gateway or dns settings. Problem is my PC sometimes 'chooses' the second network port and I don't get any internet access. Is there a way to configure the pc so that it only chooses the first network port for general internet and network and ignores the other one? Thanks for any help. Sounds like something is either occasionally breaking or there is a configuration problem - it should "just work". A few questions: Do you have a personal firewall installed on the computer, and if so have you checked that it isn't causing the problem? When the Internet is not working, can your computer still talk to the device attached to the second port, and can you ping an Internet-based numeric address (eg www.google.co.uk, 209.85.229.99)? What IP address and subnet mask have you specified for the second network interface? If the first network interface is configured manually, what IP address, subnet mask, gateway address, and DNS server address(es) are set? If by DHCP, how is that configured? It would be interesting to see output from "ipconfig /all" and "route print" both when you do and don't have Internet access. Alex |
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problem with dual network ports
tg wrote:
Windows XP service pack 3 my PC has two network cards. One for general internet access (first port) and another (second port) for data collection from another device. I have to collect data on the second port, I can't do it on the first port. The second port ip settings are just ip address and subnet mask, it has no default gateway or dns settings. Problem is my PC sometimes 'chooses' the second network port and I don't get any internet access. Is there a way to configure the pc so that it only chooses the first network port for general internet and network and ignores the other one? Thanks for any help. Sounds like something is either occasionally breaking or there is a configuration problem - it should "just work". A few questions: Do you have a personal firewall installed on the computer, and if so have you checked that it isn't causing the problem? When the Internet is not working, can your computer still talk to the device attached to the second port, and can you ping an Internet-based numeric address (eg www.google.co.uk, 209.85.229.99)? What IP address and subnet mask have you specified for the second network interface? If the first network interface is configured manually, what IP address, subnet mask, gateway address, and DNS server address(es) are set? If by DHCP, how is that configured? It would be interesting to see output from "ipconfig /all" and "route print" both when you do and don't have Internet access. Alex |
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problem with dual network ports
Hi
In general this configuration is used to choose the preferred NIC. http://www.ezlan.net/metrics.html However, you really want to do is to put the second NIC and what ever it connects to on a different subnet. Jack (MS, MVP-Networking). "tg" wrote in message ... Windows XP service pack 3 my PC has two network cards. One for general internet access (first port) and another (second port) for data collection from another device. I have to collect data on the second port, I can't do it on the first port. The second port ip settings are just ip address and subnet mask, it has no default gateway or dns settings. Problem is my PC sometimes 'chooses' the second network port and I don't get any internet access. Is there a way to configure the pc so that it only chooses the first network port for general internet and network and ignores the other one? Thanks for any help. |
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problem with dual network ports
Hi In general this configuration is used to choose the preferred NIC. http://www.ezlan.net/metrics.html However, you really want to do is to put the second NIC and what ever it connects to on a different subnet. Jack (MS, MVP-Networking). "tg" wrote in message ... Windows XP service pack 3 my PC has two network cards. One for general internet access (first port) and another (second port) for data collection from another device. I have to collect data on the second port, I can't do it on the first port. The second port ip settings are just ip address and subnet mask, it has no default gateway or dns settings. Problem is my PC sometimes 'chooses' the second network port and I don't get any internet access. Is there a way to configure the pc so that it only chooses the first network port for general internet and network and ignores the other one? Thanks for any help. |
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problem with dual network ports
"tg" wrote in message ... thanks for all the response here. I managed to resolve the issue by purchasing a 2 port network card and installing that. Even that didn't work at first because the card self-installed microsoft's own (crappy old) drivers from 2001 but I managed to find some updated drivers for it and now all is peachy with both nic's working properly and internet access too. |
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problem with dual network ports
"tg" wrote in message ... thanks for all the response here. I managed to resolve the issue by purchasing a 2 port network card and installing that. Even that didn't work at first because the card self-installed microsoft's own (crappy old) drivers from 2001 but I managed to find some updated drivers for it and now all is peachy with both nic's working properly and internet access too. |
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