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by **edtude** » Dec 27 05 6:01 am

I am haveing issues with my Multiple NIC gateway system. I have aPC running wingate with three NICs. One is of course the internal one the other two have external connections to the internet, one thru a Canopy system the other thru a cable modem connection. The Canopy connection works fine last a long time, the cable modem connection dies comes alive dies comes alive continuously. If I hook my cable modem up to my PC it works fine and I have incredible thru-put, it just will not work with my Wingate system and I can not for the life of me figure out what is going on. Any help would be appreciated I wanted the mulptiple gateway functionality because I travel and my wife is not computer savy and only wants to use it not fix it....HELP!

by **genie** » Dec 27 05 10:18 am

What version of Wingate are you running?

by **edtude** » Dec 27 05 3:43 pm

6.0.4

by **genie** » Dec 27 05 3:47 pm

Have you tried upgrading to 6.1.1? There have been various bugs fixed, which affected multi-NIC routing.

by **edtude** » Dec 27 05 5:00 pm

I will try it

by **edtude** » Dec 28 05 3:32 pm

Ok I upgraded to the latest version and still am having the same problem. For whatever reason Wingate does not like the Cable Modem connection. Even with the cable modem being the only connection it still does the Dead, Alive, Dead, alive routine. One thing that I found very curious was that when I hooked up the cable modem connection after the other connection was established the NIC for the cable modem acquired an IP, but somehow an IP from the domain of my other ISP! Meaning the Canopy domain is 206.xxx.xxx.xxx, and the Cable modems domain is 69.xxx.xxx.xxx, but if the Canopy connection is established and I hook up the Cable it will get an IP in the Canopys domain, different IP with the same gateway. Very confusing and dissapointing because I like the capability to use two different ISPs. I am using the cable connection currently directly into my PC and the rest of the family is using the Canopy connection thru the Wingate server. Any help would be appreciated.

by **edtude** » Dec 29 05 3:51 pm

Just a bit more information, I can't stop tinkering. It definitley seems to be the software because if I disable and exit WinGate and just connect both ISP connections to the PC, the NIC cards have no problem picking up the IPs with the proper domain and gateways.

by **MattP** » Dec 29 05 3:57 pm

Ok, it's really strange that you'd get one external NIC assigned an IP address in the same subnet as the other ISPs NIC. Is the WinGate DHCP server enabled? If yes can you check the binding policy and make sure that it's not bound to either of the external adapters.

For that matter can you check the network tab in GateKeeper and make sure that your NICs are correctly configured for "internal" and "external"?

If you disconnect the Canopy system does the cable modem still exhibit the same behaviour?

by **Roderick** » Dec 29 05 4:00 pm

Can you make sure that the 2 external NIC's are set as External adapters in Network tab in GateKeeper.
You should see 1 Internal and 2 External adapters in the Usage column.

by **edtude** » Dec 30 05 4:04 am

Ok the DHCP server is enabled, fully automatic and its binding is to the internal NIC. I may play around with this later today. And yes in the Network tab I have two external and one internal NIC configured --and they are the proper ones--. If I only connect the cable modem to the Wingate system it still does the alive, dead, alive dead routine

by **edtude** » Dec 31 05 1:36 pm

Any other thoughts?

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