The "MAC based routing" exists but, for my knowledge, ther are no implementation on Windows platform. The routing is not based on the IP address, as usually is, but consider the physical address of the interfaces, i.e. the MAC addresses.
My suggestion: work to change one of the IP address/network address of one of the two routers (as masnrock suggested). The routers have a quite simple user interface to change it, and if the clients use the DHCP service the change will be transparent for them.
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by: masnrockPosted on 2007-02-25 at 05:45:47ID: 18604967
I'll start by saying I'm assuming that you're using Windows.
My question would be do your NICs support teaming? However, I would also recommend you change the IP scheme on one of the routers, just so that you can easily differentiate which router is having issues if anything were to ever happen. (Maybe let one of them have a scheme like 192.168.2.x instead of 192.168.1.x). If your answer is no, you'll have to get 2+ cards which do have support for that feature.
Keep this in mind: You'll never get the full speed based on your setup because of the fact that overhead is required in the router performing network address translation. Won't be the biggest thing in the world, just something to keep in mind.