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| tw1tch |
Ok, the scenario is, I have one LAN connection and one dial-up connection. I have static settings for the LAN, DHCP for dial-up. I want everything to go through my LAN connection, but I want to be able to send/receive email through my dialup. So I went into Outlook, set it up to use my dial-up connection. I did this for an entire week, 3 weeks ago and it worked no problem. Now I try it today, and for some reason, as soon as I make my dial-up connection, ALL my traffic goes to the dial-up connection, until I close it, then it goes back to the LAN connection.
Anyone try this before? |
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| halo20 |
lol you're having all kinds of computer fun today! they are obviously correlated.
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| Irishaddict |
I wish I could help. For stuff like that I have to call in reinforcements. My cousin Dave is the resident geek in the family. Care for me to give him a shout? ;) |
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| milos |
check your event log? does it work if you have your LAN unplugged?
i'm still trying to get my mind around how this would all work lol. |
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| tw1tch |
| quote: | Originally posted by milos
check your event log? does it work if you have your LAN unplugged?
i'm still trying to get my mind around how this would all work lol. |
Everything works fine with a single connection. I want to use the internet using my LAN connection, while outlook sends and receives through my dial-up connection (all at the same time). It worked 3 weeks ago damnit.
Come on, no networky people in here? :) |
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| rabbitjoker |
| quote: | Originally posted by tw1tch
Everything works fine with a single connection. I want to use the internet using my LAN connection, while outlook sends and receives through my dial-up connection (all at the same time). It worked 3 weeks ago damnit.
Come on, no networky people in here? :) |
Use your firewall to direct certain mail-related data packets (via port usage) via the dial-up.
^5 |
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| rabbitjoker |
| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
Use your firewall to direct certain mail-related data packets (via port usage) via the dial-up.
^5 |
In XP this is done via the gateway settings/ICS. |
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| tw1tch |
| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
Use your firewall to direct certain mail-related data packets (via port usage) via the dial-up.
^5 |
The problem is, as soon as I get the dial-up connection made, it takes over the routing table and EVERYTHING goes through it. This didn't happen 3 weeks ago. When you have two, windows is suppose to set the metric according to link speed, the faster the link, the lower the metric. Eg. 100mbps is 20, 10mbps is 30, yet when I get a dial-up connection made (115.2kbps is reported) it goes straight to Metric one taking over everything. |
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| rabbitjoker |
| quote: | Originally posted by tw1tch
(115.2kbps is reported) |
You shouldn't have that reported for a modem.
Go change the port speed to match the modem speed. It's probably reporting the UART-2 rx/tx capability rather than the modem. |
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| tw1tch |
| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
You shouldn't have that reported for a modem.
Go change the port speed to match the modem speed. It's probably reporting the UART-2 rx/tx capability rather than the modem. |
That's just a display issue, 100Mbps > 115.2kbps, the metric for the dial up interface should not be set to one, bumping my 100Mbps connection (which I forced to 1) up to metric 2.
I have it set to 115.2 cause that's what Sony told me to use (my sony phone using Bluetooth is my modem). |
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| rabbitjoker |
| Well, then you're way to swanky and advanced for my neural-net processor to compute... |
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