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---------- | From: Jesse Montrose <jesse@spine.com> | To: thinkpad@cs.utk.edu | Subject: Re: dynamic dialup vs fixed ethernet IP in win95? | Date: Tuesday, December 10, 1996 3:57 PM | | At 10:45 AM 12/10/96 -0500, Joseph Escribano wrote: | >In Control Panel/Network, set up TCP->Dial Up Adapter connection. There | >you can specify "Obtain an IP address automatically". | | I have that set. So you should have a separate one for your net card, right? In my case, I have TCP->Olicom... and TCP->3COM Etherlink... and on those two IPs are assigned; the dialup is dynamic. The W95 TCP stack is unique. Apparently you can choose either direct or dialup connect types and W95 will choose the appropriate stack; you can't have both simultaneously. | | >I've got a TP755C and have cards for a 3COM Ethernet III (combo), Olicom | >Token-Ring and a Motorola Montana 28.8 modem. At work, I usually have one | >of the net cards, TR mostly, and the modem. When I connect from home, I | >disconnect or take out the net card (so that W95 won't try to connect me to | >a network) and just do a dial up connection to my ISP via PPP. | | That occurred to me, have you tried using the win95 Hardware Profiles for | that? Our guy couldn't make that work, but it seemed promising to me. I use the hardware profiles for Docked (to a Dock I w/ CDROM) and Undocked but haven't tried it for a non-network setup. W95 can distinguish between the two setups (Docked/Undocked) but I'm not sure about a 2nd Undocked. My usual setup is Undocked at work. I only used the Dock when I want to load something from CD w/o network support (such as the W95 upgrade). I think I tried to work with hardware profiles early on but gave up for the simple solution below. | | Does it work if you don't remove/disconnect the card? If I don't, it takes longer to boot up and I get a network not found error from NW Client. It'll work but I can do without the extra hassle. No net card, no attempt to connect. I've got my PC card slots without any cover at all, so that I can pop'em out as needed. I usually leave the net cards and dongles locked up in my desk unless I happen go to a net accessible site. | | >At work, I use both the NW32 client for LAN connections and TCP to go into | >the Internet. If I did a dial up connection at work, my LAN and TCP | >connections would be severed but the LAN ones could be restored after a | >dial up connect. | >The TCP connections thru the net cards can be specified for either | >automatic or fixed address assignment. | | That came up too, they don't want to switch the entire office network to | dynamic IP though. But for direct connects, you can specify a distinct IP while having a dynamic one for dialups. |