I'm having an annoying little problem at the moment. My Windows Server 2008 machine is running Routing and Remote Access Services so that I can use NAT to connect multiple devices (my PC and Xbox360) to the internet and effectively bypass the login method by leaving my server connected.

The problem is that my server with dual NICs is set up as follows:

Local Area Connection 1 (Internet): ISP assigned IP, gateway :arrow: RRAS/NAT :arrow: Local Area Connection 2 (Internal): Internal static IP, NO gateway!

The absence of a gateway means that the Internal interface is always... "identified" as an Unidentified Network. That's really stupid in my opinion because the server basically is the default gateway for that network.
So this effectively enables any firewall restrictions that I have in place for Unidentified Networks, meaning that I can't easily send ICMP requests or easily do any "file sharing" with my server, etc.

I've searched around for solutions for a while and all that seems to be available is either insert a bogus active default gateway with a high metric or change the Security Policy setting to convert all Unidentified Networks into Private Networks (which means those Unidentified Networks that I may have wanted to use my firewall for don't get restricted).
These are basically workarounds. There has to be some way to set identification for a single network to either Public, Private or Unidentified.

Anyone... ?

Hmm what you could try and do is open up secpol.msc in win2k8 and browse to "Network List Manager Policies". In here you should be able to edit the behavior of unidentified networks and set each network to whatever you want.. Let me know how you go