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Forcing programs to use one NIC or another

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I have a computer with two NICs, that connects to two completely separate networks. One is the primary one, that I have all my work & e-mail on. The other one I don't sign into, I just pull down an IP from it because internet on the other goes through a proxy & is very slow. However, one network or the other keeps trying to take over. The browser (I tried both Firefox and IE) end up trying to go through the proxy instead of the direct connection. And if the 2nd network is active at all, Outlook (2003) will not connect to the server. Is there a way to force a program to use one NIC and ignore the other?
 
Couple of things, first browser - switch off 'use proxy server' in the connection settings if you do not want this. Secondly for dual homed systems (i.e. sitting on two networks) ensure that the metric is correct for the two networks - they should be different (cmd-->route print).

You will find that it is mainly application specific as to if you can specify a specific connection to use - you will find most torrent clients now support this
 
The browser is already set for direct connection - it keeps trying to go to the proxy. I managed to change the metric, but it didn't do anything. I have a better idea of how to go about it now, though - I just need the computer to go through a specific connection if it needs to go to a specific IP address (e-mail is my real problem, and I pinged the mail server's name to get it's numeric IP). I tried to add this through the route command, but it keeps saying that the Mask is invalid (even though I know it to be correct, and in use).
 
If it is only a specific IP then there should be no problem with setting the route - if it is a single specific IP you should be able to use netmask 255.255.255.255
 
I can get it to change if I don't specify a subnet - the problem is that the default 255.255.255.255 isn't the correct subnet - it needs to be 255.255.248.0 or it doesn't work.
 
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