two nics

I'm not sure that what you're trying to do will work because Win98 doesn't have enough routing capability to determine whether a packet needs to go out the ADP NIC or the SOHO NIC. To accomplish this, you probably need to upgrade to NT Workstationor W2K Professional but I don't know if even that would work.

A couple of bits more information would be useful. Where does the SOHO NIC get it's address? Is it static or is it supplied via DHCP by the Linksys router? When you do an IPCONFIG /ALL, what does it tell you about the IP, subnet mask and gateway of each interface?

But I'm thinking that this is only going to work with some sort of routing software. What I think is happening is that your gateway address is the ADP NIC so whenyou ping the Internet, it goes that way rather than towards the Linksys router.

You might be able to accomplish this with the Internet Connection Sharing that comes with Win98SE but I would need to know more about the ADP connection to be able tomake that judgement.

The other issue is whether ADP is okay with having their network attached to the Internet by means of an unprotected workstation. That might actually turn out to be the bigger problem than the routing issue.

paul

make sure you have TCP/IP installed in your network.

I have done something similar. I used only one nic, I added two tcp/ip protocols to the one nic. Each with its own settings. This enabled me to utlize two different networks simultaneously.

Sounds like the problem is your DEFAULT route. Any machine can only have one default route. After all, a default route is the last reosrt choice, hence how can you have two last resorts?
To get to the internet, you obviously have to have that router as the default route, as the internet is a big bad place with everything out there. However as you are getting your internal IP address from DHCP, it is quite possibe that the administrator of that DHCP scope has allocated a different internal router as the default gateway to be supplied to the clients.
Therefore you need to make the nic with the outbound connection to have the default route.
To be honest, this sounds like the best solution would be to get a static IP address on the internalnic and use the route add command to manually add the required internal routing, and let the external one have the default route. I know this may be politically difficult to achieve but....
The other solution of course is to get some sort of proxy on the SOHO side so that there is a specific address for you to throw packets at. Hope this helps.

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