Dual Network Gurus Plz Help

[mikeg]

Ok I have a computer running win XP it has one onboard lan and a wireless network card also. The wired lan is used for a POS % invintory system the wireless is used for internet access. It seems that I can only get internet if I disable the wired network. The wired network has a static IP and gateway. Wireless gets its IP and DNS numbers from a wireless network. Both networks work but I cant get both of them to work at the same time. How do I do this
Mike

 

[DaiShan]

Why do you have a gateway set for the wired network if you aren't connecting to the internet with it? Set the gateway to what you want for your wifi connection, and are the internal ips the same format (like 192.168.1.xxx) for both the wired and the wireless? Also there may be a setting to use a certain connection for internet, in which case you could just use that setting to point it to your wifi connection (damn work computer can't put xp on it for at least a few weeks)

 

[spidey07]

Are there any other IP networks on the wired network? If so then that's what you need the default gateway for.

You'll need to add a route to your machine to tell it "send internal wired traffic here to this IP address". Here's the syntax...

> route ADD 157.0.0.0 MASK 255.0.0.0 157.55.80.1 METRIC 3 IF 2
destination^ ^mask ^gateway metric^ ^
Interface^
If IF is not given, it tries to find the best interface for a given

So if your wired IP address is 172.16.10.93 with a gateway of 172.16.10.1 then the command would be:
>route add 172.16.0.0 mask 255.255.0.0 172.16.10.1 -p

Make sure you use the "-p" option as this makes the route persistent and it will remain in your host routing table when you reboot.

Hope this helps, if you can provide the IP addresses and a copy of "route print" from the command line we can help you through it.