Vista Business and manually selecting a network adapter

Ladies and gents,
Is it possible to manually select a primary/default network adapter to be used for all network traffic?
Everytime I plug in my ethernet, it automatically becomes my default adapter, forcing all traffic to go through it instead of my wireless. I would like to be able to have it not automagically switch to my LAN and/or be able to choose my wireless as the default adapter.

What I'm trying to accomplish is have my host OS (Vista) use wireless and assign my VMWare vm's (XP) to use the LAN. The VMWare part is already working.

Thx.

 

Don't think you can do that, since VMWare session(s) use the same system core resources

cheers ...

 

Any reason why you want your virtual OS to use the LAN? When I used VMware it would just share the active connection on the host machine.

 

My VM's (XP) connect to the LAN, which is a private network that doesn't have outbound access to the internet.
My main host OS (Vista) needs to connect to the Wifi, which as outbound internet access for web browsing and email.

As soon as I connect to the LAN, Vista automagically switchs to it. I can add a persistent default gateway to the routing table but it needs to be recycled everytime I connect to the LAN. I was hoping there might be a faster point-click solution.

 

wx6 , I found a soultion which may not me what your looking for anyway here is the link

http://blog.commsconsulting.co.uk/2007/04/05/network-adapter-proritisation-on-vista/

 

Thanks for the link, vinumsv. I checked my settings and my wireless was already set to the highest priority. It still kept going through my LAN connect.
However, it did give me some ideas. I disabled automatic metric for both adapters and gave them static values, with my wireless having a lower value (higher priority). Lo and behold, it worked! A quick tracert to Google showed my network traffic flowing through the wireless with both connections active.

 

Glad you got it working mate