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Re: dynamic dialup vs fixed ethernet IP in win95?
- To: thinkpad@cs.utk.edu
- Subject: Re: dynamic dialup vs fixed ethernet IP in win95?
- From: lee@rmii.com (Lee Stewart)
- Date: Tue, 10 Dec 96 09:24 MST
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>The problem is that Win95 is just bright enough to be a pain in the butt.
>I found that everything works fine if my ethernet card is REMOVED from my
>'pad before dialing to my ISP -- I can connect to the office ethernet and
>all that stuff. It appears that Win95 sees that the ethernet card is in the
>machine (config'd for the office LAN), so it sends all packets for that IP
>range to the ethernet card. It doesn't seem to check to see if the card is
>actually connected to anything.
This is what I found too... The other thing you can do is define a second
configuration where the lan card is not part of that configuration and
everything works fine -- of course that implies rebooting...
Lee Stewart