An unexpected slowdown issue had me baffled a not too long ago with timeouts to online services, web surfing, network access – generally everything had delays in starting / connecting. For the life of me, I couldn’t figure out why.
Then it struck me. I was using Windows 8 Hyper-V feature for some screencasts here on the blog as well as impromptu demos and I had created various INTERNAL and PRIVATE networks in order to isolate my VMGuests from the production network. By doing the newer INTERNAL networks – I had created new network adapters on my corporate client machine which screwed up my binding order!
A quick swipe to the start screen and typing of “binding” didn’t turn up anything in the search. I then remembered the GUI way of surfacing the binding order configuration tool.
The Steps?
- Just open your Network and Sharing Center.
- Press an ALTkey on your keyboard to show the menu bar.
- Click on the Advancedmenu
- choose Advanced Settingsoption
- Adjust your binding order for your NICs to ensure your primary CORP ones are at the TOP
Silly me!
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post, . Keep composing and I will keep reading through!
I appreciate it ,Brigitte
This may not always be the case. The methoud does not lists any hidden adapters which can be listed using IPconfig /all.
This would be the last crack in this case.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlserverfaq/archive/2009/10/08/receive-a-warning-about-the-network-binding-order-on-the-setup-support-rules-page-when-install-sql-server-2008-in-a-failover-cluster.aspx
Thanks – this tip just helped me.
Just getting used to server 2012 – everything has moved yet again!
Hi Rick, thanks for you support. I have checked this in Windows 7 Enterprise platform and it works fine.
I have a lot of laptops with two network interfaces, wired and wireless, most of them has wireless first. How can I do this automaticaly with some script or bat file, or maybe some gpo?
Regards
you don’t really have to worry about it with wired and wireless as traffic should default to using the wired network over the wireless.