Does Vista Firewall support 2 active Firewall profiles?
Does Vista Firewall support 2 Active Networks at a time? It seems that it is designed to support only 1 active NIC and assumes the other will be disabled. I have 2 NICS:
Network 1) accesses the LAN and the internet thru a gateway.
Network 2) accesses a private WAN thru a layer 5 switch
For Vista Firewall:
Network #1 has been setup as a Private Network Profile
Network #2 has also been setup as a Private Network Profile.
However, Network #2 will revert back to a Public Profile on every reboot.
The Public Profile will then "rule" both Network connections and as one would
expect connectivity thru both networks results in chaos.
How can I force Network #2 to remain within the Private Profile and stop
converting to Public on every reboot? Network #2 does not have a gateway (
its left blank in TCP/IP as there is no DNS or network resources served by a
gateway).
My suspicion is that since Network #2 has no gateway defined, the Windows
Network awareness API keeps converting it to a Public Profile.
Thank you for any ideas.Vista x64 Business
March 16th, 2007 4:18pm