Does Vista Firewall support more than 1 active network at a time?
Does Vista Firewall support 2 ACTIVE network connections? It seems that the firewall is designed to only support one active NIC at a time. I pose this question as I have 2 disjointed NICS and cannot get Firewall to behave correctly. 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 Wind
