Dynamic and static ips easy way to switch????

[Codewiz]

My gf uses her laptop on our home network which is setup for DHCP with a 192.168*.* IP address.

When she takes her laptop to school she has a static IP. They don't even have a DHCP server setup on the network that I know of.

Is there an easy way to either create a new LAN connection that can be enabled and disabled depending where she is Or is there a scipt that could be written to change all the settings? I know with a docking station this is an easy fix but she has no dock.

It would suck to have to change the settings everytime she goes to and from school.

 

[mboy]

If she has xp, then you can do it in the OS. If not, you may want to check this out:
Netswitcher
For $15, it should do what you want quite nicely

 

[Codewiz]

Yes she has XP. How is it done?

 

[dbwillis]

I believe it would be like this:>
in Network Connections window, right click the LAN connection, then highlight TCP/IP and click Properties.
The general tab should indicate "obtain,,....from DHCP server" on the alternate tab, you should be able to specify the IP info for her school.
I used it once or twice and it worked fine.
Good luck!

 

[L3Guy]

I have found on Win 98, that plugging the PCMCIA NIC into the other slot will be recognized as a different nic, and can have a different address. Or a different NIC type will also be a seperate IP address.

HTH

Doug

 

[mobly99]

see this old post, I posted a batch file using netsh.exe and some scripts to do this as well.
This works with 2K or XP.

-Dave

 

[rw120555]

I've heard good things about netswitcher, but here are some more options:

Switching TCP/IP settings easily