Maintaining best connection on WinXP Pro

[Fred Weston]

Hmm, I see your point.  I think the problem you're going to run into
is finding software intelligent enough to select the "best" one.  Best
could mean a lot of different things, latency, hop count, reliability,
bandwidth, etc.  It almost sounds like you need some kind of special
routing protocol to do this, because this is in essence exactly what a
router would be in charge of doing.

On 2/28/06, Ralph Sims <ralph at sims.cc> wrote:
> That would be an option.  How would this work if I didn't know what my
> connected networks were at any given time?  I could have a static ip on the
> Ethernet NIC, a dynamic one on the 802.11 card and a different one assigned
> via PPP on the evdo card. If I move from one location to another the
> available (and hence connected) networks change.
>
> I would think that there's something out there that monitors the interfaces
> and automagically selects the most "appropriate" one.
>
> As Ken suggested http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894564/en-us has some
> useful information.  However, the dialup connection offered by the evdo card
> (my old 1xRTT card didn't use PPP and this was less of a problem) seems to
> take precedence over the onboard NICs; I don't see any way to
> "de-prioritize" the evdo  connection
>
> > Couldn't you just set multiple default gateways with
> > different metrics?
>
>
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