two NICS, two networks - please help

[piasabird]

It might be possible for your IT staff to fill in the gap with a DHCP server routing address. You could bring this up with other department heads and get them on your side to gang up against the IT Department to bring this to a head. Kind of like playing Politics. If you emphasize the need for connectivity to the internet explaining it makes your company look like a mickey mouse organization, they may come on-board to your side.

 

[kt]

If that internet connection is so essential to your work and the IT department won't help you even though you're approved for it, I would quit my job. Doesn't sound like a company I would like to work for. Like someone says, it's a mickey mouse operation. And like any other mickey mouse operation, it will go under sooner or later.

 

nah, its not a mickey mouse operation...its just political
our online makes the most money of the business
IT just has a more powerful hold right now...someday it will pan out

 

[Woodie]

"...not a mickey mouse..."

AND

"... IT department had their chance...when we went to them for a backup connection, they said to do it ourselves..."

does not compute. The facts speak for themselves...the IT department can't maintain a decent Internet connection, and then allows (tells) you to set up an unmonitored, unmanaged back door into their private network. Yes, there is a mickey mouse organization there. Not sure if it's the company or the IT area.

 

its the IT area

 

[Fatt]

If I may...

A company that ALLOWS an IT dept that is that ignorant (uncaring?) about network security IS a Mickey Mouse operation, regardless of what their gross income is.

Part of the mission of a GOOD sysadmin is to protect his/her bosses from themselves.

If a sysadmin fails to do this he is remiss in his duties.

 

[spidey07]

Still.....

You should be able to make this happen (as ugly as it is) by adding a default route to your cable modem/broadband router and then adding a summary route for the internal network.

Try...

route -p add 0.0.0.0 MASK 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 METRIC 1
route -p add 10.0.0.0 MASK 255.0.0.0 10.14.253.2 METRIC 2

the "-p" makes it a persistent route and will appear in your routing table everytime you boot. The metric is for preference, lower metric wins if there are multiple routes to same destination. I used the 192.168.1.1 and 10.14.253.2 gateway addresses from your IPCONFIG post above so if your addresses are different then change accordingly. Also, your IT department does look a little incompetent judging from your 10. address. They're giving your a class B mask...pretty sloppy.

What those routes do are:
Any destination address that starts with 10. send the packet to 10.14.253.2
Any destination address that doesn't start with 10. send the packet to 192.168.1.1