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makes sense...will try it and respond soon...
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makes sense...will try it and respond soon...

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It seems to have done the trick...with my route statements in place, I just removed the gw on the second nic and it pings fine. thx.
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It seems to have done the trick...with my route statements in place, I just removed the gw on the second nic and it pings fine. thx.

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I had to make a workstation part of 2 networks so I just finished installing a 2nd Nic card and added a couple of route statements. Both nics are statically assigned their ip info. I did that 2 days ago and since then, at least once per day, I lose connectivity to the original network because the gateway ip address is missing. When you go to the 1st Nic's tcp/ip properties, the address is there but when you run ipconfig, the default gateway is blank. I have to restart the computer for it to reappear and work again.
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I had to make a workstation part of 2 networks so I just finished installing a 2nd Nic card and added a couple of route statements. Both nics are statically assigned their ip info. I did that 2 days ago and since then, at least once per day, I lose connectivity to the original network because the gateway ip address is missing. When you go to the 1st Nic's tcp/ip properties, the address is there but when you run ipconfig, the default gateway is blank. I have to restart the computer for it to reappear and work again.

Why is the default gateway ip address disappearing?

The Windows operating systems have distinct methodologies for designing and implementing networks, and have specific systems to accomplish various networking processes, such as Exchange for email, Sharepoint for shared files and programs, and IIS for delivery of web pages. Microsoft also produces server technologies for networked database use, security and virtualization.

Windows Networking

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical, globally distributed system responsible for associating the name of a computer, service or other resource into an IP address for connecting to the Internet or a private network. Most prominently, it translates domain names to the numerical IP addresses needed for the purpose of computer services and devices worldwide.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is the set of networking protocols that define end-to-end connectivity specifying how data should be packeted, addressed, transmitted, routed and received at the destination. This functionality is organized into four abstraction layers which are used to sort all related protocols according to the scope of networking involved.