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Windows 98 gateways

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by jeff

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Our LAN has two gateways; one to a frame relay network and another that goes to the Internet. All the workstations are Windows 98. We have installed both gateways under the networking properties, however, when we try to go to the Internet the PC'sjust hang as if their attempting to go through the wrong gateway. How do I set up the workstations to specify that Internet (IE) requests are to go to one gateway and all other requests are to go to the Frame Relay gateway?

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by fgarber

First you can only have one gateway for a pc. The gateway for the pcs will be whatever address is the next hop on the network. In the router going to the internet connection the gateway of last resort should be set to 0.0.0.0 mask 0.0.0.0 then theaddress of the port connected to the internet. To determine that the pcs are trying the right path use tracert nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn where the n's are the address of the internet gateway router or try tracert www.yahoo.com

by shmaltz

You can not use more than one gateway.
You should setup a proxy on the internet gateway and configure the browsers to use the Proxy for internet connections.

by nettek

Try removing your Frame Relay gateway IP address from the default gateway settings of your 98 machines, and leave only the Internet gateway. Next, add a persistent Route statement to the 98 machines that tells to use the Frame Relay Gateway to get to your subnets on the other side of the Frame Relay. You can do this via a login script. For example:
c:\windows\route.exe -p add mask
You can use multiple route statements if you have multiple subnets on the other side of your Frame Relay network.

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