Urgent: How to bind to Adapter?

RouterOS The Dude
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Hi,

My Dude server has failed and I have moved it to a new server.
However a lot of devices aren’t replying to SNMP Requests.
I believe this is because the server I’m running it on has 2 network adapters.
I have the primary NIC Configured to the same IP as the old server but I feel it might be using the secondary NIC (currently used with Static IP for another task.)

I can’t find a way to make sure the Dude sends requests only on one adapter.

Is this possible?

Thanks,

Aikidoka

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The easy way is to go to the network card tcp/ip properties and set the metric lower for the preferred network, providing you are using windows. You can also manually add routes if you want certain traffic to take the card with the higher metric.

3

Ok, sad you can’t do it in the software, but yes, excellent suggestion - I will give it a try asap.

Thanks,

Aikidoka

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Yes you can do in software… “route add” for windows.

route add 192.168.0.0 mask 255.255.0.0 192.168.1.1 metric 1

5

Ah no, sorry, I meant in the software (The dude).

I’ve made the changes and it appears to be working correctly.

Annoying but it is working :slight_smile:

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The dude is not a router :slight_smile: good to hear you are working again.

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I know it isn’t a router…

But a lot of software that can do similar tasks have configuration options allowing it to only use a chosen NIC instead of whatever is automatically the first in the list.

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Good point!