Pat Coghlan Posted June 13, 2008 Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 I have a LAN consisting no routers (i.e. no gateway configured) and pairs of servers on a common segment. In addition to the NIC used for the common segment, each pair have a second back-to-back ethernet connection to each other, used for heartbeat packets.The public subnet is 192.168.1.0, while the private connection is 10.0.0.0.When there is no routing information configured - nor a gateway - and 2 NICs, which does Windows select to reach a destination address?I have one static route configured to point all 10.0.0.0 traffic at the second NIC, but how do I know that Windows doesn't try the 2nd NIC first to reach destinations on the common segment...or does the routing stack ARP for these?Is the algorithm 1) ARP, 2) use configured routes and 3) send to the gateway if unsuccessful? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted June 13, 2008 Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 You will probably need to run ISA if it is a Windows box in order to set up ARP and Routing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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