Mac Pro 8 Core two Ethernet to two different Default Gateway  Help!

Hi, I am trying to take the best out of my MacPro. I have two ADSL connection at home and I would like to have one set of applications i.e. HTML servers and streaming on one external IP address (Ethernet 1) and browsing and other on the second External IP address (Ethernet 2). Both of my routers do NAT and the address the two nics do see are 192.168.x.x,of course the default GW is different.
Configuring the two NIC with different addresses is not a problem but telling Safari to use one specific Nic and therefore going to "router 1" rather than B is something I am not capable of configuring. Same thing for some third party little servers to reply to requests coming from Internet and threfore responf on "router 2".
I thought, maybe I can circumnavigate the problem using two users, and having it running concurrently where one was using ETH1 going to Router 1 and the other using ETH2 going to Router 2, but I quickly discovered that if I change the network setup on one user it reflects the same thing on the other user (unless I mi-sconfigured something).
The last solution I thought was using either PArallel or fusion, create a Virtual Machine in Windows and browse the network throught the Virtual NIC that gets created and that routes the traffic to the default gatewat different from the OSx configuration. This last solution works but it forces me once again to rely on Windows... I am convinced thare is a very easy solution and I don't know what it is and where it is..... if there is an expert out there I would welcome any suggestion (even several) and I am already thanking for the time you are going to spend on my question.
Thanks and HAPPY 2009!
Frank

frank_tp wrote:
Hi, I am trying to take the best out of my MacPro. I have two ADSL connection at home and I would like to have one set of applications i.e. HTML servers and streaming on one external IP address (Ethernet 1) and browsing and other on the second External IP address (Ethernet 2). Both of my routers do NAT and the address the two nics do see are 192.168.x.x,of course the default GW is different.
Configuring the two NIC with different addresses is not a problem but telling Safari to use one specific Nic and therefore going to "router 1" rather than B is something I am not capable of configuring. Same thing for some third party little servers to reply to requests coming from Internet and threfore responf on "router 2".
I thought, maybe I can circumnavigate the problem using two users, and having it running concurrently where one was using ETH1 going to Router 1 and the other using ETH2 going to Router 2, but I quickly discovered that if I change the network setup on one user it reflects the same thing on the other user (unless I mi-sconfigured something).
The last solution I thought was using either PArallel or fusion, create a Virtual Machine in Windows and browse the network throught the Virtual NIC that gets created and that routes the traffic to the default gatewat different from the OSx configuration. This last solution works but it forces me once again to rely on Windows... I am convinced thare is a very easy solution and I don't know what it is and where it is...
no, you are wrong. this is impossible. OS X can only use one internet connection at a time. your trick with a virtualization program is probably the only way you can circumvent this.

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