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I tried seach alot on this but i can't find any answer (or dosnt know if its even possible)
I have a Windows XP machine at home as a fileserver with 2 NIC's. I have NIC1 connected to my router for the internal network 192.168.0.x and the router is connected to my ADSL. NIC2 is connected directly to the ADSL modem with a internet IP adress.
What i want to do is: Have NIC1 ONLY for the internal network, no internet acces and the NIC2 Solely for internet acces. And to make it more complicated i have a VPN tunnle which i wanna use for the NIC2 connection only. See attached file to understand me better :)
So basically i want to separate all internet traffic from the lan traffic as i were 2 diffrent PC's. is this possible?
And if i have 2 NICS active with one internet access each - which NIC does windows use?! How can i see that?
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Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\
You can then play around with routing in the firewall
as a after thought? does your router allow for additional VLANs? you could just add one and give the other card the relevant IP and your away.
Also have you looked into hamachi as a VPN solution - it works very well for some of my clients and is stable and not to mention FREE! Â
Cheers
Tony
Just to clearify myself abit (my english sucks sorry): The VPN tunnle i use is for cryptation, nothing else :) and i want to separate the LAN from the WAN.
I gonna try play around abit with above suggestions and see, thanks!
And yeah, hamachi is a great tool :)

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route -p add 192.168.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.x.x metric Y 192.168.x.x
where 192.168.x.x is the IP address of your NIC 1 and the metric is a value that is higher than the metric for internet traffic on the other NIC
Do a "route print" first to see the current system routes...
Shall i still use the DNS on NIC 1? (192.168.0.1)

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I probably didn't say that right. :) Â But try just using the ADSL router for DNS on NIC2 and the other router for NIC1, should work fine.
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Microsoft Windows XP is the sixth release of the NT series of operating systems, and was the first to be marketed in a variety of editions: XP Home and XP Professional, designed for business and power users. The advanced features in XP Professional are generally disabled in Home Edition, but are there and can be activated. There were two 64-bit editions, an embedded edition and a tablet edition.