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"YNWA" wrote in message news:1dcae01c45431$e7b695d0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
: Hi Roland, Thanks for replying. The user connects via an
: ADSL router.
That's unclear. The aDSL router has a switch and the user is moving the
patch cable from his modular jack in the wall to the switch on the router
and keeping the patch cable connected to his NIC on the other end? As Jeff
said, if addressing was assigned dynamically, moving the cable would be all
that is required.
: What I intend to do is, I set the IP addr on the internal
: LAN Gateway
The internal LAN gateway? Is this the gateway he uses currently when
connected via the company's network? You're able to change this?
: & the ADSL Gateway to be the same (the 2
: devices are not connected).
Or you're setting this address to match the company's DFG? Hopefully (the 2
devices are not connected) means not at the same time or to each other.
: Also I will add all the DNS
: servers (IP addr) in the DNS search order. Will this
: work?
You could do that but it would slow things down when one couldn't see the
other. Also, he won't be able to get to the internal network when connected
directly to the ISP.
: I am not in the office and can only test it next
: Fri. I guess there will be performance issue...
Ya', and possibly more if the internal network has AD which means there is
an internal DNS server.
If the ISP is offering addressing dynamically, then set the NIC to obtain
everything dynamically when connected that way. I haven't tried Deji's
suggestion but you could use netsh as suggested or WMI to make these
changes.
I would make sure the interface name is still "Local Area Connection" as I
tend to change mine. You could find out with:
netsh interface ip show config
It would return something similar to:
Configuration for interface "LAN1"
DHCP enabled: Yes
InterfaceMetric: 0
Statically Configured DNS Servers: 192.168.0.9
WINS servers configured through DHCP: None
Register with which suffix: Primary only
You're interested in the "LAN1" [interface name] in this case.
If you're not familiar with netsh, Deji's example wraps and the next
statement is right underneath.
set address local static 10.0.0.9 255.0.0.0 10.0.0.1 1
is an example of setting a static address to an interface uniquely starting
with local, ip 10.0.0.9, mask 255.0.0.0, gw 10.0.0.1 and metric [hop] 1.
If it were dynamic, you could just use this: netsh interface ip set address
local source=dhcp
Then you could use the first one to set it back to a static address for the
corporate network.
To make you life even easier, you could just add a NIC, attach two patch
cables and just disable one interface while enabling another.
--
Roland Hall
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