Problems with 2 gateways in Vista

[zerorhythm]

I'm on Vista 64 and I'm trying to get this to work like how it would in XP, but for some weird reason Vista doesn't seem to like how I set up my network configuration. I want to 2 default gateway ones is for my wireless adapter , and the other for connecting to my notebook through a giga nic card. I tried using RIP, but it doesn't seem to help. Every time I have both network device on one will take over, mostly the giga nic, but I want both of them running at the same time. I used the wireless mostly for internet and printing, and I use the giga nic to transfer files back and forth between my computer and notebook? Any one have a clue or a link that has the procedures to configuring my network under Vista to work like that?

 

[nessus]

Being configured in that manner has never been Microsoft best practice. Per Microsoft, having multiple default gateways is only for redundancy, not separating traffic.

If you want to separate traffic, apply a default gateway to only one interface, then add persistent route statements to direct specific traffic to a particular interface.

The reason you are seeing different behavior is that Vista applies different metric values based on the actual connection speed of network interfaces. Higher speed networks are given higher prioriteis. If you have a 1 Gb interface, and a 100 Mb interface. All traffic will be routed through the 1 GB interface, unless it loses connection. You can get around this by removing the default gateway value and using a persistent route.

In your case, you want to put the deafult gateway on your wireles network, and use a persistent route to direct traffic to your computer over the gigabit connection.

Windows XP used the same metric value for all local network connections that did not change. It therefore round robinned through all available interfaces instead of giving preferences to connections with higher speeds. It was a horrible design from a netowrk efficiency standpoint.

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-us/help/deafc97a-6ff4-4f57-b3a4-fab84388ef1f1033.mspx