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

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