Hello,
I've just installed a new web server running on Windows Server 2003. The server has 2 NICs. Each NIC is assigned to a different subnet. The two subnets connect to two different routers that connect to two different leased lines. The idea is to have
www.website.com going down one leased line and
www.website.net going down the other leased line.
We have this exact same setup on a Windows 2000 server and it works fine. When I set it up on the Windows 2003 box, it gives an warning about multiple default gateways but works ok when I click yes to saving the changes. However, after a day or so, the 2nd NIC drops it's default gateway so
www.website.net doesn't work. The default gateway is there in the TCP/IP properties on the 2nd NIC but the output of ipconfig shows a blank for the default gateway on the 2nd NIC.
Setting a different metric on each NIC doesn't work because the web page is sent back through the NIC with the lowest metric which might not be the one the web request came in on.
Does anyone have any ideas how I can have two NICs each with a different default gateway?
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