Does anyone have a good reference that explains exactly how Vista and newer Microsoft Operating Systems determine whether a particular NIC has "Internet Access?" I'm talking about the really annoying 'feature' where the network stack automagically tries to determine whether a particular NIC has a route to the internet.
I'm curious b/c our Pix SmartFilter plugin (now owned by McAfee) is messing with a couple of machines and breaking their ability to actually get to the internet. If I disable filtering for the machines' ip addresses there's no problem at all. With filtering enabled they completely lose their ability to get on the internet when their DHCP leases renew and you have to disable then re-enable the NICs. (SmartFilter of course says that there's no way it's related to their product...) TIA, RS ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
