Multiple NICs -- directing traffic to one or the other

I'm implementing an iSCSI SAN. Right now I have a two seperate
networks for the SAN traffic and regular network traffic.

I have a Server 2003 R2 server with two NICs:

NIC1 is uses our standard network, 192.168.100.0/24
NIC2 is our SAN VLAN, 192.168.105.0/24

Is there anyway I can tell my Windows server to direct all traffic for
network for the .105 network to NIC2 and all other traffic to NIC1?

Hello,

Windows will use the good network card to reach the good network
automatically.

For the outside trafic (anything else than 192.168.100 and .105) it will use
the gateway through the card that has it defined
--
Cordialement,
Mathieu CHATEAU
http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com


<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I'm implementing an iSCSI SAN. Right now I have a two seperate
> networks for the SAN traffic and regular network traffic.
>
> I have a Server 2003 R2 server with two NICs:
>
> NIC1 is uses our standard network, 192.168.100.0/24
> NIC2 is our SAN VLAN, 192.168.105.0/24
>
> Is there anyway I can tell my Windows server to direct all traffic for
> network for the .105 network to NIC2 and all other traffic to NIC1?
>

As Mathieu said, the software will automatically know which card to use
once it knows the IP address of the target machine. The big problem with
multiple NICs is name resolution. If the name resolves to the "wrong" IP for
the target machine,the traffic will use the "wrong" NIC and the "wrong"
path.

"Mathieu CHATEAU" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> Windows will use the good network card to reach the good network
> automatically.
>
> For the outside trafic (anything else than 192.168.100 and .105) it will
> use the gateway through the card that has it defined
> --
> Cordialement,
> Mathieu CHATEAU
> http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com
>
>
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> I'm implementing an iSCSI SAN. Right now I have a two seperate
>> networks for the SAN traffic and regular network traffic.
>>
>> I have a Server 2003 R2 server with two NICs:
>>
>> NIC1 is uses our standard network, 192.168.100.0/24
>> NIC2 is our SAN VLAN, 192.168.105.0/24
>>
>> Is there anyway I can tell my Windows server to direct all traffic for
>> network for the .105 network to NIC2 and all other traffic to NIC1?
>>
>

This can be managed by creating two host names for each device, each with a
different host IP.

"Bill Grant" <not.available@online> wrote in message
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> As Mathieu said, the software will automatically know which card to use
> once it knows the IP address of the target machine. The big problem with
> multiple NICs is name resolution. If the name resolves to the "wrong" IP for
> the target machine,the traffic will use the "wrong" NIC and the "wrong" path.
>
> "Mathieu CHATEAU" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hello,
>>
>> Windows will use the good network card to reach the good network
>> automatically.
>>
>> For the outside trafic (anything else than 192.168.100 and .105) it will use
>> the gateway through the card that has it defined
>> --
>> Cordialement,
>> Mathieu CHATEAU
>> http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com
>>
>>
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed) ups.com...
>>> I'm implementing an iSCSI SAN. Right now I have a two seperate
>>> networks for the SAN traffic and regular network traffic.
>>>
>>> I have a Server 2003 R2 server with two NICs:
>>>
>>> NIC1 is uses our standard network, 192.168.100.0/24
>>> NIC2 is our SAN VLAN, 192.168.105.0/24
>>>
>>> Is there anyway I can tell my Windows server to direct all traffic for
>>> network for the .105 network to NIC2 and all other traffic to NIC1?
>>>
>>
>
>

Thanks this did work, but after some playing around.
I tried the article below and then went back to ports, and I could not edit
the ports setting it gave a 800xxxxx error. So I had to reboot. On reboot
it was still not there.
So to resolve, I stopped RRAS service, then proceeded through the article,
then restarted RRAS at the end, and they reappeared.

Thanks

"(E-Mail Removed)" wrote:

> I'm implementing an iSCSI SAN. Right now I have a two seperate
> networks for the SAN traffic and regular network traffic.
>
> I have a Server 2003 R2 server with two NICs:
>
> NIC1 is uses our standard network, 192.168.100.0/24
> NIC2 is our SAN VLAN, 192.168.105.0/24
>
> Is there anyway I can tell my Windows server to direct all traffic for
> network for the .105 network to NIC2 and all other traffic to NIC1?
>
>