Re: ActiveSync 4.0 passthru interface selection
- From: "Chris De Herrera" <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:33:38 -0800
Hi,
The difference is how the Pocket PC accesses hosts. Work hosts do not have
periods in the name while the internet hosts do.
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"mada" <mada@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello
The network is referring to the network connections built into the
device - not ActiveSync.
I understand this, however I was wondering what is the (exact) difference
between "Work" and "The Internet". From some experimentation, I've been
able to find out that when the network is set to connect to "The Internet"
it is able to resolve addresses that do not only belong to the 169.254.x.x
range but, still, I may be wrong on this. In any case, I am really curious
as to what exactly is the difference between these two settings.
You can set ActiveSync to allow the Pocket PC to connect to the internet
by clicking on File - Connection Settings and make sure that This
Computer Connects To has The Internet selected.
Again, I can understand this, from a functional point of view, however I
would like to be able to understand from a technical point of view, too. I
am a computer professional for about 15 years and, still, I find it hard
to understand settings as ambiguous as "Work" and "The Internet" :)
Thank you for yout reply, Chris
mada
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"mada" <mada@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all, a question on ActiveSync 4.0 passthru over a usb connection
which, as far as I understand, uses the RNDIS protocol, between a WinXP
machine and a WM5.0 device.
On the mobile device, the RNDIS Host settings are (manually specified):
IP address: 169.254.2.1
Subnet mask: 255.255.0.0
Default gateway: 169.254.2.2
There is also a (mysterious) setting announcing that "My network card
connects to: The Internet" (someone please oh please explain to me what
these mean).
On the WinXP machine, there are two network connections:
1) "Local Area Network"
Settings (manually specified settings for my home lan):
- IP address: 10.0.0.4
- Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
- Default gateway: 10.0.0.111 (my DSL router on my home lan)
2) "Local Area Network 5"
Settings (this is the DHCP-enabled ActiveSync connection over the RNDIS
protocol):
- IP address: 169.254.2.2
- Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
- Default gateway: not set
With these settings, of which I had to manually set nothing related to
the ActiveSync stuff neither on the Win XP machine nor on the WM5.0
device, I can connect to the Internet through Internet Explorer on the
WM5.0 device. I understand that this is achieved thanks to ActiveSync
passthru, which uses the "Local Area Network" interface which can "see"
the DSL router to route packets to and from the "Local Area Network 5"
interface, which can "see" the WM5.0 device.
My question is simple: On what basis does ActiveSync choose which
interface to use for RNDIS passthru? There are other interfaces on the
Win XP machine, such as a dialup interface that is TCP-IP enabled, also
I could have more than one network card installed, so why does
ActiveSync choose the interface it does?
Thanks to all for any time you spend reading my post
.
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