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Two wireless networks XP getting confused...

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owentt

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Ok here is what im looking at.
Two networks; A wireless router and B wireless router.
A has 3 laptops wifi connected to it and a WAN connection to the internet.
B which resides in my basement is only connected via ethernet to my server.

Now on my laptop which has two wireless devices, built in and wifi card; I want to connect to both wireless networks A and B at the same time.

I have done this and it works I can share files to the server VNC connection etc... but my laptop tries to use the non WAN router B to go online with AIM and everything else maybe because its 108 mbps and the other is 54.

How do I tell my laptop to use only the wireless connection with the broadband router A for internet and stuff and leave my wireless B router just for sharing files to the server.

Both routers are Netgear WGT624.

Thanks
 
Welcome to AnandTech Network Forum.

I can not give you a solid answer because frankly I do not know how your Network is configured? What Server is? Is it One Network or actually two Independent Networks.

However if you have a computer with two Networks card there is two Network connections and two TCP/IP stacks. Uncheck the one that you do not to share files through from the File Sharing.

:sun:
 
It is two independent wireless networks. one connected to a cable modem, and the other only used to access a server.

the question is how do I tell my laptop with XP which wirelss connection to use for internet and internet applictions and leave the other for only local requests like printing or sharing files from the server.

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection 2:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : NETGEAR 108 Mbps Wireless PC Card WG511T
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0F-B5-27-95-4A
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.3
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, March 09, 2006 12:15:43 AM

Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Friday, March 10, 2006 12:15:43 AM

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-16-6F-20-02-CD
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.2
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, March 09, 2006 12:16:21 AM

Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Friday, March 10, 2006 12:16:21 AM

I want xp to use the NETGEAR 108 Mbps Wireless only to connect to the server and its resouces. and all WAN requests to Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG. Is this possible?
 
Hmm... is it so complex that its impossible? or is it so simple that non bothers to answer? I hope I was clear in my description. Please help...
 
It's actually quite easy...

delete the default gateway from your NIC that is internal use only.

or more complex...delete the default route added for that interface
 
thank you deleting the default gateway works perfectly

is there any way that the server can access the internet through the laptop?

would some kind of http tunnel work?
 
yes, but it's much more complex then. The easiest way would be to "bridge" the ap the server is connected to with the internet connected AP upstairs, and elminate one card from your PC 😉

 
Can anyone point me to a tutorial on how the route command works? I also have two networks and would like to set Firefox to use one and other stuff to use the other if it's not too difficult.

Also if I take my laptop somewhere else I'd need to change it back to normal so maybe I could have a batch file that I could run depending on where I am...
 
note, the route command is a L3 (ip) part of the stack. You cannot route based on application, only by IP. To route via application, you have to have that support in the application itself.
 
Well, since all of our internal programs go to our internal network that has an IP range of 3.x.x.x could I somehow state that any program trying to get something with a 3 goes to one network card and anything going to anything else woudl go to the other card? Just brainstorming....
 
yes, because then you are still working at L3...

All traffic bound for 3.x.x.x uses the int eth0

Linux syntax would be something like (not exact, but close...)
route add -net 3.0.0.0 mask 255.0.0.0 gw 3.0.0.1 int eth0
route add default gw 4.0.0.1 int eth1
 
the easiest way?


Network 1 is Internet connected

Network 2 is the server


laptop's eth0 is on net1, eth1 is on net2

turn off DHCP for net 2

select both adapters in Windows (assuming pro here) and select "bridge". The server should now get an IP from your network1

if you have home, you have to use MS's ICS software to set this up. I'm not too keen on using it, check ezlan for info.
 
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