Forcing XP clients to use one route for F+P and another for web "Gary D" <gary[ at ]admp.fsnet.co.uk> 7/12/2007 9:13:51 AM Hi All At my site, I have 2 VPN links to our head office using 2 routers (Router A and High Speed Router B). Router A is the router I would like XP clients to use for the internet. High Speed Router B is for all other File + Print etc. I have tried adding both gateways in the TCP/IP set up on the XP clients (Router B metric=5, Router A Metric=10). This gives me good speed to the other site as expected, but when I open Internet Explorer there is a LONG wait before it goes online using Router A. My question : Can I edit the routing table using "route add" etc. to force all traffic destined for 10.0.1.x to always use Router B, and all other traffic to use Router A. This would seem to solve my problem. Any advice much appreciated. Thanks, Gary D

Re: Forcing XP clients to use one route for F+P and another for web "Gary D" <gary[ at ]admp.fsnet.co.uk> 7/12/2007 10:13:49 AM Found this article and will give it a try http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/tcpipwan.html Gary D "Gary D" <gary[ at ]admp.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message news:F186C24C-0CF8-4CE0-827D-4057C39BB077[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Hi All > > At my site, I have 2 VPN links to our head office using 2 routers (Router > A and High Speed Router B). > Router A is the router I would like XP clients to use for the internet. > High Speed Router B is for all other File + Print etc. > > I have tried adding both gateways in the TCP/IP set up on the XP clients > (Router B metric=5, Router A Metric=10). This gives me good speed to the > other site as expected, but when I open Internet Explorer there is a LONG > wait before it goes online using Router A. > > My question : > > Can I edit the routing table using "route add" etc. to force all traffic > destined for 10.0.1.x to always use Router B, and all other traffic to use > Router A. This would seem to solve my problem. > > Any advice much appreciated. > > Thanks, Gary D > >