Win2K Laptop on Office LAN and Home LAN, plug and pray?

[Poontos]

With one NIC, would I able to use two seperate LAN profiles in Win2K for use at the office and home?

Office is firewall/router with NAT plug in. 192.168.0.DHCP

Home is firewall/router (Netgear) with NAT plug in. 192.168.0.6 (static).

Thanks!

 

[Buddha Bart]

can that netgear act as a DHCP server? if so just set that up, and it doesnt matter. you'll be dhcp for both.

 

[Poontos]

<< can that netgear act as a DHCP server? if so just set that up, and it doesnt matter. you'll be dhcp for both. >>


There are already 3 other boxen plugged in with static IP's, and DHCP is kind of slow. Plus, when I originally set it up, DHCP would not work.

Now I *might* be able to setup a static IP at work, same as at home. But, I`m not sure if this Netopia machine can do DHCP and a computer want a static IP.

Any other suggestions? What about two seperate profiles in Win2K? Or hardware profiles? Is that applicable?

Thanks.

 

[mcveigh]

I have a similar problem , but just use dhcp at home also (smc 7004abr router). sounds like it would be worth it to take the time to get it to work.

 

[Poontos]

DHCP slows the boot up a bit, though... 🙁

 

[Poontos]

So I cannot create two network profiles in Win2K for this purpose? NE1?

 

[sirfergy]

what I usually do is just swap the slot the nic is in. That makes win2000 think it's a different connection. Have slot 1 for work, and slot 2 for home.

That works best.

 

[Poontos]

What if the NIC is built in? :Q 🙂