Hey Wash, Thanks for your email. My pal had told me that he sometimes creates a hotspot using his phone and surfs the net using his data bundle. The points you have raised are quite reasonable, I must say, but as a network admin, I would use different subnets for LAN and WLAN e.g. Class C addresses on the WLAN and Class B addresses on the LAN or vice versa. Anyway, I think that's a minor detail. He needs to use his bundles by creating an AP using his phone. BTW, it seems like it's only HP/Compaq laptops which have this issue. Why would the other makes allow both ethernet and WLAN? Me On 17 January 2012 10:17, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
And I think that the following statement, derived from the same URL, makes so much sense:
"*It's perfectly normal, you cannot have two concurrent connections.*"
Imagine the following:
Both WLAN and Ethernet are active. Your LAN subnet is 192.168.x.x/24 Your WLAN has obtained 192.168.x.10/24 while your Ethernet has 192.168.x.11/24. In both cases, Gateway is 192.168.x.254. What is the use??
Imagine another scenario, where the AP is wired to a different Internet provider while the Ethernet is wired also to a different Internet provider.
You get assigned two different network addresses on the WLAN and Ethernet. However, all traffic gets sent out via the Gateway with the highest METRIC (the lower number). It means some services fail unless you specify some static routes, right? Something along the lines:
route add -p 0.0.0.0 mask 0.0.0.0 interfaceNUM (for WLAN) route add -p 192.168.x.0 mask 255.255.255.0 interfaceNUM (for Ethernet)
Actually, someone please tell answer me this question: In scenario 2, suppose I want ALL Internet traffic to go out via WLAN and all LAN traffic to go through the Ethernet, are those commands really correct??
Back to @Simon Mbuthia and his pal - what was the initial intention of having both interfaces active at the same time?
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 09:58, Simon Mbuthia <simon.mbuthia@gmail.com>wrote:
I have just come across this link http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-networking/window...
I have sent it to him and I hope it works. Says that HP/Compaq laptops have a certain setting that needs to be changed. Might you guys have tried this by any chance?
Me
On 17 January 2012 09:40, Steve Muchai <smuchai@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Simon Mbuthia <simon.mbuthia@gmail.com> wrote:
Happy new year friends,
I have a friend who just bought a HP laptop which came bundled with Windows 7. He informs me that he is unable to use both Wireless and Ethernet at the same time and in order to use either, he has to disable the other. I am not
My work laptop (HP EliteBook 8440p, Vista Enterprise) has the same behaviour, but I was under the impression it's a custom config for security reasons. I'll check with out HP IT guys and see if they can help.
Regards, Steve
-- This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke ------------ List info, subscribe/unsubscribe http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------
Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke
_______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke ------------ List info, subscribe/unsubscribe http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------
Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. Please consider the environment before printing this email.
_______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke ------------ List info, subscribe/unsubscribe http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------
Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke
