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Dual LANs No Longer Work After Format & Workgroup Issues
  1. #1


    Dylan Harrelson Guest

    Dual LANs No Longer Work After Format & Workgroup Issues

    I recently reformatted my PC to properly install some printer software from
    HP after neither HP or Microsoft would help. After reformatting and
    reinstalling the drivers to everything I tried to plug in my two internet
    connections and found out only one could work at a time, if the other cable
    were plugged in, HTTP would not work even if the NIC was disabled. When I
    first formatted the machine and viewed each network seperately on each card I
    could see the "Network Map" of each NIC but after trying to adjust setting
    through this website I lost that capability and it no longer turns up a
    result. I have tried enabling NetBIOS but for some reason inside "ipconfig
    /all" it displays it as disabled.

    Here is the ipconfig:

    Windows IP Configuration

    Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Phoenix-PC
    Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
    Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
    IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes
    WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

    Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:

    Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
    Description . . . . . . . . . . . : NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller #2
    Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1B-FC-00-73-7A
    DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
    Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
    Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::4464:956b:5c69:970d%9(Preferred)
    IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 153.91.197.114(Preferred)
    Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.254.0
    Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, September 12, 2007 1:57:58
    AM
    Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, September 12, 2007 2:12:59
    AM
    Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 153.91.197.254
    DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 153.91.3.203
    DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 234888188
    DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 153.91.210.204
    153.91.210.200
    150.199.101.1
    NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled

    Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 1:

    Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
    Description . . . . . . . . . . . : NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
    Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1B-FC-00-71-22
    DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
    Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
    Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::c1f1:5068:19e0:dff%8(Preferred)
    IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.101(Preferred)
    Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
    Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Tuesday, September 11, 2007 1:10:54 AM
    Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, September 13, 2007 1:10:53 AM
    Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
    DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 201333756
    DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 24.217.0.5
    24.217.1.162
    24.217.0.55
    NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled

    Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 6:

    Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
    Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
    Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
    Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
    DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
    Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

    Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 7:

    Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
    Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
    Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
    Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 02-00-54-55-4E-01
    DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
    Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes



    Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 9:

    Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
    Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #2
    Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
    DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
    Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
    Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . :
    fe80::200:5efe:153.91.197.114%16(Preferre
    d)
    Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
    DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 153.91.210.204
    153.91.210.200
    150.199.101.1
    NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled

    Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 10:

    Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
    Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft 6to4 Adapter
    Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
    DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
    Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
    Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : 2002:995b:c572::995b:c572(Preferred)
    Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
    DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 153.91.210.204
    153.91.210.200
    150.199.101.1
    NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled

    The LAN #2 is from Charter High Speed, the modem cable goes to a Linksys
    WRT54G Router and then comes back to the computer as well as a wireless
    laptop with Windows XP. While the LAN #1 is directly connected to a school
    network. When both NICs are activated and plugged in only LAN#2 can connect
    to the Internet while LAN #1 displays only "Local Only" connection however I
    can see local machines within the school network, but while both lines are
    connected I can not browse HTTP, but I can stream files from ShoutCast. If
    the LAN#1 connected to the school network is the only cable connected I can
    not even connect to either, now the machine is not registered with the
    network BUT it should display our local network websites which it does not.

    Within this whole mess everything on my network was working fine before the
    reformat I previously had the school network going into the router and
    Charter going solely to this PC. After the reformat and having network
    issues I switched it around but I isolated the problem to simply unplugging
    the school network from my other NIC.

    With all that I previously had a small peer-to-peer network established
    between the Windows XP & Vista machines (with no problems surprisingly) but
    now I can not get them to connect together again, I have tried Network Setup,
    manual workgroup name adjustment, Wireless Network Setup but nothing has
    worked.

    I hope this all makes sense and I hope someone can help me. Thank you for
    your time!

      My System SpecsSystem Spec

  2. #2


    Robert L [MVP - Networking] Guest

    Re: Dual LANs No Longer Work After Format & Workgroup Issues

    The problem is a multihomed computer running two default gateways. This troubleshooting may help,

    issues of a multihomed computer with two NICsIssues of a multihomed computer with two gateways. Case 1: The client setup a Windows 2003 server with two NICs, one for Internet access one for the LAN ...
    www.chicagotech.net/Routers/2gateway2.htm


    Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
    Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
    How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
    "Dylan Harrelson" <DylanHarrelson@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:F4A803FB-51A4-4257-8E6C-5F9F816BFE32@xxxxxx
    I recently reformatted my PC to properly install some printer software from
    HP after neither HP or Microsoft would help. After reformatting and
    reinstalling the drivers to everything I tried to plug in my two internet
    connections and found out only one could work at a time, if the other cable
    were plugged in, HTTP would not work even if the NIC was disabled. When I
    first formatted the machine and viewed each network seperately on each card I
    could see the "Network Map" of each NIC but after trying to adjust setting
    through this website I lost that capability and it no longer turns up a
    result. I have tried enabling NetBIOS but for some reason inside "ipconfig
    /all" it displays it as disabled.

    Here is the ipconfig:

    Windows IP Configuration

    Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Phoenix-PC
    Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
    Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
    IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes
    WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

    Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:

    Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
    Description . . . . . . . . . . . : NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller #2
    Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1B-FC-00-73-7A
    DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
    Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
    Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::4464:956b:5c69:970d%9(Preferred)
    IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 153.91.197.114(Preferred)
    Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.254.0
    Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, September 12, 2007 1:57:58
    AM
    Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, September 12, 2007 2:12:59
    AM
    Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 153.91.197.254
    DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 153.91.3.203
    DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 234888188
    DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 153.91.210.204
    153.91.210.200
    150.199.101.1
    NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled

    Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 1:

    Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
    Description . . . . . . . . . . . : NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
    Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1B-FC-00-71-22
    DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
    Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
    Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::c1f1:5068:19e0:dff%8(Preferred)
    IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.101(Preferred)
    Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
    Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Tuesday, September 11, 2007 1:10:54 AM
    Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, September 13, 2007 1:10:53 AM
    Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
    DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 201333756
    DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 24.217.0.5
    24.217.1.162
    24.217.0.55
    NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled

    Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 6:

    Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
    Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
    Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
    Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
    DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
    Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

    Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 7:

    Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
    Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
    Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
    Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 02-00-54-55-4E-01
    DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
    Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

    Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 9:

    Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
    Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #2
    Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
    DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
    Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
    Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . :
    fe80::200:5efe:153.91.197.114%16(Preferre
    d)
    Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
    DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 153.91.210.204
    153.91.210.200
    150.199.101.1
    NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled

    Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 10:

    Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
    Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft 6to4 Adapter
    Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
    DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
    Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
    Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : 2002:995b:c572::995b:c572(Preferred)
    Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
    DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 153.91.210.204
    153.91.210.200
    150.199.101.1
    NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled

    The LAN #2 is from Charter High Speed, the modem cable goes to a Linksys
    WRT54G Router and then comes back to the computer as well as a wireless
    laptop with Windows XP. While the LAN #1 is directly connected to a school
    network. When both NICs are activated and plugged in only LAN#2 can connect
    to the Internet while LAN #1 displays only "Local Only" connection however I
    can see local machines within the school network, but while both lines are
    connected I can not browse HTTP, but I can stream files from ShoutCast. If
    the LAN#1 connected to the school network is the only cable connected I can
    not even connect to either, now the machine is not registered with the
    network BUT it should display our local network websites which it does not.

    Within this whole mess everything on my network was working fine before the
    reformat I previously had the school network going into the router and
    Charter going solely to this PC. After the reformat and having network
    issues I switched it around but I isolated the problem to simply unplugging
    the school network from my other NIC.

    With all that I previously had a small peer-to-peer network established
    between the Windows XP & Vista machines (with no problems surprisingly) but
    now I can not get them to connect together again, I have tried Network Setup,
    manual workgroup name adjustment, Wireless Network Setup but nothing has
    worked.

    I hope this all makes sense and I hope someone can help me. Thank you for
    your time!

      My System SpecsSystem Spec

  3. #3


    Dylan Harrelson Guest

    Re: Dual LANs No Longer Work After Format & Workgroup Issues

    I tried establishing a default first with the school network LAN, when it
    didn't work I then tried the Charter. Neither worked.

    "Robert L [MVP - Networking]" wrote:

    > The problem is a multihomed computer running two default gateways. This troubleshooting may help,
    >
    > issues of a multihomed computer with two NICsIssues of a multihomed computer with two gateways. Case 1: The client setup a Windows 2003 server with two NICs, one for Internet access one for the LAN ...
    > www.chicagotech.net/Routers/2gateway2.htm
    >
    >
    > Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
    > Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
    > How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
    > "Dylan Harrelson" <DylanHarrelson@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:F4A803FB-51A4-4257-8E6C-5F9F816BFE32@xxxxxx
    > I recently reformatted my PC to properly install some printer software from
    > HP after neither HP or Microsoft would help. After reformatting and
    > reinstalling the drivers to everything I tried to plug in my two internet
    > connections and found out only one could work at a time, if the other cable
    > were plugged in, HTTP would not work even if the NIC was disabled. When I
    > first formatted the machine and viewed each network seperately on each card I
    > could see the "Network Map" of each NIC but after trying to adjust setting
    > through this website I lost that capability and it no longer turns up a
    > result. I have tried enabling NetBIOS but for some reason inside "ipconfig
    > /all" it displays it as disabled.
    >
    > Here is the ipconfig:
    >
    > Windows IP Configuration
    >
    > Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Phoenix-PC
    > Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
    > Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
    > IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes
    > WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
    >
    > Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:
    >
    > Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
    > Description . . . . . . . . . . . : NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller #2
    > Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1B-FC-00-73-7A
    > DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
    > Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
    > Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::4464:956b:5c69:970d%9(Preferred)
    > IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 153.91.197.114(Preferred)
    > Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.254.0
    > Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, September 12, 2007 1:57:58
    > AM
    > Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, September 12, 2007 2:12:59
    > AM
    > Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 153.91.197.254
    > DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 153.91.3.203
    > DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 234888188
    > DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 153.91.210.204
    > 153.91.210.200
    > 150.199.101.1
    > NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled
    >
    > Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 1:
    >
    > Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
    > Description . . . . . . . . . . . : NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
    > Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1B-FC-00-71-22
    > DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
    > Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
    > Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::c1f1:5068:19e0:dff%8(Preferred)
    > IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.101(Preferred)
    > Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
    > Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Tuesday, September 11, 2007 1:10:54 AM
    > Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, September 13, 2007 1:10:53 AM
    > Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
    > DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 201333756
    > DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 24.217.0.5
    > 24.217.1.162
    > 24.217.0.55
    > NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled
    >
    > Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 6:
    >
    > Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
    > Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
    > Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
    > Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
    > DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
    > Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
    >
    > Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 7:
    >
    > Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
    > Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
    > Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
    > Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 02-00-54-55-4E-01
    > DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
    > Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
    >
    > Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 9:
    >
    > Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
    > Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #2
    > Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
    > DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
    > Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
    > Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . :
    > fe80::200:5efe:153.91.197.114%16(Preferre
    > d)
    > Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
    > DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 153.91.210.204
    > 153.91.210.200
    > 150.199.101.1
    > NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled
    >
    > Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 10:
    >
    > Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
    > Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft 6to4 Adapter
    > Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
    > DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
    > Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
    > Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : 2002:995b:c572::995b:c572(Preferred)
    > Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
    > DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 153.91.210.204
    > 153.91.210.200
    > 150.199.101.1
    > NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled
    >
    > The LAN #2 is from Charter High Speed, the modem cable goes to a Linksys
    > WRT54G Router and then comes back to the computer as well as a wireless
    > laptop with Windows XP. While the LAN #1 is directly connected to a school
    > network. When both NICs are activated and plugged in only LAN#2 can connect
    > to the Internet while LAN #1 displays only "Local Only" connection however I
    > can see local machines within the school network, but while both lines are
    > connected I can not browse HTTP, but I can stream files from ShoutCast. If
    > the LAN#1 connected to the school network is the only cable connected I can
    > not even connect to either, now the machine is not registered with the
    > network BUT it should display our local network websites which it does not.
    >
    > Within this whole mess everything on my network was working fine before the
    > reformat I previously had the school network going into the router and
    > Charter going solely to this PC. After the reformat and having network
    > issues I switched it around but I isolated the problem to simply unplugging
    > the school network from my other NIC.
    >
    > With all that I previously had a small peer-to-peer network established
    > between the Windows XP & Vista machines (with no problems surprisingly) but
    > now I can not get them to connect together again, I have tried Network Setup,
    > manual workgroup name adjustment, Wireless Network Setup but nothing has
    > worked.
    >
    > I hope this all makes sense and I hope someone can help me. Thank you for
    > your time!

      My System SpecsSystem Spec

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