>>>Hi
>>>I have a workstation that runs 24/7 many routines, connects to vfp9 web services worldwide, create xmlhttp objects to connect to other apps, runs web services and executes work in the lan and many many more.
>>>Lately, one of the connections required and IPSEC VPN connection, which forced me to use 2 NICS ( network cards ) for that computer.
>>>Now i have the following setup:
>>>Card 1, IP: 10.103.37.8 ---> this one creates a socket connection through vpn
>>>Card 2, IP: 192.168.1.5 ---> this is the normal one, does all the work, web services, browses the internet, etc...
>>>For card1, when i create the socket connection, i can specify my ip address, which works great.
>>>The problem is that i noticed that when browsing the internet now, it takes the system a long time to figure out what ip to use ( card 2 ), and it sometimes even timeout.
>>>I sometimes try: CREATEOBJECT("Microsoft.XMLHTTP") then when trying the .Send() method, i get a "resource not found error" , then i retry and it works.
>>>Same for web services, mssoapinit fails many times.
>>>How can i tell microsoft.xmlhttp and mssoap.soapclient objects to specifically use the CARD2 ip address?
>>>
>>>TIA
>>>JAime
>>
>>You can use routing, see ROUTE command in windows cmd.exe
>
>Thanks Dorin
>I checked the ROUTE help, but it's quite hierogliphic...Googled it a bit then got myself into more trouble...In the meantime, i set a lower metric in the tcp/ip options for the card2, and a higher one for card1, but i still don't know for sure if that did the trick completely :-(
>
>Thanks for your help
>Jaime

We have VPN as well (leased line), and a separate connection for internet , but only one NIC
The default gateway is the router connected to WAN/Internet
I alse have permanent route for VPN
route add -p 192.168.200.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.252 metric 1 (.252 addredd is VPN router address )

You can try:
route add -p 10.103.0.0 255.255.0.0 {vpn gateway} metric 1 IF 1

HTH