Here is the situation that Ineed to solve. I have a computer with 2 Network Card on a Windows XP SP1a system. In order to test a potential software solution, I need to be able to connect to the internet and establish a VPN connection at the same time. With 1 NIC, my internet traffic is blocked as soon as I establish the VPN connection. So with 2 NIC's - I want to be able to direct the VPN through NIC #1 and the internet traffic through NIC #2. I have gone through the various wizards and settings, and cannot seem to hit the right setup. Anyone here have any ideas about getting this to work?

ls_dragons

How about using different browsers?

Its worth a shot!

VPN has nothing to do with browsers. I need to restrict the VPN client to connecting with only 1 of the 2 NIC's and restrict all 'normal' internet traffic to the 2nd NIC.

My bad...

As far as I know, the only machine that should have two NICs is the server that you are connecting two... You should be able to connect with one NIC on your computer!

Is your firewall enabled?

Here is the situation that Ineed to solve. I have a computer with 2 Network Card on a Windows XP SP1a system. In order to test a potential software solution, I need to be able to connect to the internet and establish a VPN connection at the same time. With 1 NIC, my internet traffic is blocked as soon as I establish the VPN connection. So with 2 NIC's - I want to be able to direct the VPN through NIC #1 and the internet traffic through NIC #2. I have gone through the various wizards and settings, and cannot seem to hit the right setup. Anyone here have any ideas about getting this to work?

ls_dragons

The only way I got this to work was to use a server OS, with windows XP, I always had difficulties due to XP auto bridging the network adapters, even when disabled. Your next option maybe to try a Virtual system and try it that way. I know in ISA Server 2000+ you can assign network adapters fuctions, but in this case it doesn't help.

So I could achieve my goal with a server OS -- I have access to Windows Server 2003. Would that work? Any suggestions for resources on how to get the set up I need working with that OS?

Thanks

I always thought that the idea of VPN was to cut off the host pc from all local network traffic. I would expect any VPN software to be able to check for more nics on the host machine and possibly block them too ( well they should do if they don't).

We had to have "split tunneling" enabled to allow us to browse the Inet while VPN'ing in to the work server.

No, I don't know how-we have a Cisco wizard that babysits our PIX 501.