DHCP at home, static IP at work

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If you use two different wireless cards, and each uses a different
driver, you can set one card to use DHCP and one to use static
address.


On 18 Apr 2005 08:58:29 -0700, "ecm" <thedeepabyss@whoever.com> wrote:

>Hi; the title says it all.
>
>I'm using a Dell Axim X50v connected with a MS MN-700 wireless base
>station at both home and work. With my laptop and WinXP this works
>fine, I can set up DHCP as the main and a static IP as the alternate.
>But, I can't figure out a way to do a similar thing in Pocket PC 2003
>SE. I could just assign the same IP at home too, but then I'd have to
>mess around with the wireless setings, and I'm not really good at
>that....
>
>I've got my home network set up with a DHCP that serves up the IP
>address every time I connect; at work each network device has a static
>IP; I can't convince the Sysop to change to DHCP - he's really commited
>to static IP's.
>
>Is there a way of assigning a static IP to a certain network
>connection, and DHCP to another? I've tried everything I can think of;
>I've even tried RTFM without any new ideas. I checked google, but I
>didn't find anything that seemed to apply. I'm open to the suggestion
>I'm just missing something, I'm brand new to PPC and I'm not a network
>guru by any stretch.....
>
>Thanks for any info!
>ECM

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Take a look at http://BevHoward.com/NetWk.htm#DHCP
for a homebrew solution... there was an app that dealt with this but
havn't seen it mentioned for over a year.

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]