Cable Modem NIC causes DNS problem........ N E Ideas

[Barry Margolin]

In article <QLDA3.9792$Pv4.5107 at news.rdc1.mi.home.com>,
Todd <toddoconnor at home.com> wrote:
>I had 1 NIC installed and eveything worked just fine but now after I
>installed the 2nd one ..................it Fails
>If I remove the 2nd NIC, cable modem works fine. I can't seem to get DNS
>working with two NICs in the machine. If I try pinging the DNS server I get
>a Time out. But Iif I remove the 2nd NIC and ping it work fine..

Sounds like you may have a default route configured on the 2nd NIC.  You
should only have a default route configured on the NIC that connects to the
Internet.

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