You should have one and only one default gateway assigned per machine. One
of the shortcomings of the Windows stack is that it allows multiple default
gateways.

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Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity
Atlanta, GA


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johnny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 11:18 AM
> To: NT 2000 Discussions
> Subject: RE: Default Gateways with two NICS
> 
> 
> Well, its like this:
> 
> NIC 1 should do all the communication for this box - just a regular
> internal IP behind a firewall thing with gateway 192.168.1.1
> 
> NIC 2 is actually plugged into a VPN box connecting somewhere 
> else and its
> purpose is to connect to one box only through this VPN.  
> Therefore I have
> a persistent route that says to go to [ip address] use NIC 2 and that
> works fine.
> 
> NIC 2's gateway is coming up as the Default Gateway if I do a 
> route print
> and I want it to be the gateway on NIC 1 which is 192.168.1.1.
> 
> It seems like w2000 just chooses the other dgateway by 
> default and I would
> like to specifically state what that default gateway is just like you
> could in UNIX.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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