Re: Static AND DHCP on same NIC

From: Kagonos (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/24/04 

Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:20:47 -0700

Her office is off site for us, in a commercial building.
The office is using another company's T1, not our. She's
sorts "hitching a ride" with them, that's why the static.

I'll check out the link you included. Thanks.

Kag.

>-----Original Message-----
>Kagonos wrote:
>> I'm working with a Dell Latitude D400 with Windows 2000
>> installed. It has an onboard NIC (Broadcom 57x Gigabit)
>> and a port replicator with passthrough for the NIC.
>>
>> When the person using this laptop is in the office
(using
>> the port replicator) she needs a static IP to get out
the
>> office's T1.
>
>Why can't you set up DHCP on the office network?
>
>> When she's travelling she needs to use DHCP.
>> She's been manually changing her IP information
depending
>> on her location, but she's not a techie at all and this
>> isn't the way we'd like to leave things.
>>
>> Is there a way, through profiles or something, that I
can
>> set up 2 different configurations for the same NIC, one
>> with static info and one with DHCP? The regular
>> docked/undocked profiles just use the same NIC and
>> therefore the same settings, meaning the settings carry
>> over and are not profile specific.
>
>There's a third party app called NetSwitcher that might
work for her.
>www.netswitcher.com, I believe.
>>
>> In the end I suppose I could ship out a PCMCIA NIC for
her
>> to use while on the road but I'd rather there were a way
>> to solve this without the added expense. Somehow I just
>> feel Windows is capable of what I need here.
>
>If you use DHCP in your office this isn't a problem
anymore - why use
>statics in this day & age?
>>
>> Kag.
>
>
>.
>

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