Re: 2 Network Card hook up to same network

From: Chris (cwhite2812_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 03/18/04


Date: 18 Mar 2004 14:17:44 -0800

You could create a shortcut for each connection on your desktop and
then enable or disable them as appropriate with a right click.

Chris

"cst112" <cst112no-spam-please@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<105jvaa44elfu01@corp.supernews.com>...
> Can someone tell me what they know about connecting two network cards to the
> same network.
>
> This is my scenario. I have a Laptop that has both a wireless network card
> and a normal network card. I have enable both and it seems to work fine.
> The DHCP server assigns separate IP addresses to both cards and I am able to
> get access to the network. How does DNS work when this happens?
> I know if the network cards support teaming, you can do that but that is not
> what I am trying to do. I also know when you have two different computers
> with the same hostname, it causes a duplicate name on network error and it
> doesn't allow the computers to connect to the domain. Also which network
> card is used to access the internet when you have two cards and which IP
> address gets resolved first in DNS for the host? I just want to know the
> logisitics of how this works.
>
> In the end:
> I would like to enable both network cards on the laptop but I would like to
> use the wire LAN when docked and the wireless when roaming.



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