Multiple Network Cards and Networks

Posted: 09-21-2008, 10:48 AM

Richard

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Hi,
My home PC has 2 network cards in it:
1. Wireless network card that is used for accessing my wireless ADSL
router. THis is the primary neto9wrk interface I use to connect to the
internet
2. An on board ethernet NIC that I am trying to use as a private network.
This is connected to a netgear switch on my desk, which I use as a private
network that I plug my laptop into.

The problem
=========
I have Vista Ultimate 654 Bit edition running with all patches. The issue I
have is that the network settings are a bitg hard to understand.
Logically, I was expecting that I could set the wireless as a public
network, so that no sharing etc occurs across it, and that the ethernet
connected to the switch was the internal network. This internal network would
be used to access all internal network resource only.
The problem seems to manifest in that in Network and Sharing Center, for the
local only network I cannot change the name or the icons etc. Also, when I
set it to Private, the settings are lost.

I am in the IT game, so find this irritating beyond belief.
Is it just me doing something wrong here, or is it not possible to have the
setup I have described above?

Any help from any one is very much appreciated.

Regards

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barman58

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Re: Multiple Network Cards and Networks

Posted: 09-21-2008, 12:51 PM

Hi richard

Firstly if this response is oversimplified I apologise

just some things I would chec

The 2 networks are on different subnet
Manual IP addressing for wired and auto for wireles
No gateway on the Wire
The file and printer sharing is on for the wired and off for th
wireless
The Microsoft network client is on for the wired and off for th
wireless

Hopefully this set up will allow you to set the Private / Publi
settings for each networ

you may also have to setup manual IP routing for the private networ

basic examples of how to in Vista 'Here
(http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...routing-table/

hope this help

--
barman5

Regards,
*Nigel*
the beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do no
understand.,- frank herbert

Paul Montgomery

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Re: Multiple Network Cards and Networks

Posted: 09-21-2008, 03:00 PM

On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 06:51:30 -0500, barman58 <guest@unknown-email.com>
wrote:

>
>Hi richard,
>
>Firstly if this response is oversimplified I apologise.

You should be apologizing to eveyone else for not quoting the post -
or the relevant part of the post - that you are replying to.

Many of us have other Usenent stops and don't spend all of our time in
one place so it's not that easy to keep it all in memory.

You post a lot. You should learn to quote.

>
>just some things I would check
>
>The 2 networks are on different subnets
>Manual IP addressing for wired and auto for wireless
>No gateway on the Wired
>The file and printer sharing is on for the wired and off for the
>wireless.
>The Microsoft network client is on for the wired and off for the
>wireless.
>
>Hopefully this set up will allow you to set the Private / Public
>settings for each network
>
>you may also have to setup manual IP routing for the private network
>
>basic examples of how to in Vista 'Here'
>(http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...routing-table/)
>
>hope this helps

Richard

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Re: Multiple Network Cards and Networks

Posted: 09-21-2008, 11:06 PM

Barman,
Thanks for the response. I did not try with a static IP. However, what would
I put for the gateway, as there is no gaetway for that NIC?

Also, since one of my PC's is a laptop that I use for work, the ideal
situation would be for it to store a network "profile" that is automatically
turned on when I connect to the network that I have associated with the
profile. So, for example, when I am at work, the work profile is enabled
(with the Internet proxy and DHCP), whereas when I am at home, the "Home"
profile is activated (no DHCP and static IP). Does anyone know if this is
even remotely possible?

I love Vista, but feel that this is the one thing that got horribly broken.

Regards

Richard

"barman58" wrote:

>
> Hi richard,
>
> Firstly if this response is oversimplified I apologise.
>
> just some things I would check
>
> The 2 networks are on different subnets
> Manual IP addressing for wired and auto for wireless
> No gateway on the Wired
> The file and printer sharing is on for the wired and off for the
> wireless.
> The Microsoft network client is on for the wired and off for the
> wireless.
>
> Hopefully this set up will allow you to set the Private / Public
> settings for each network
>
> you may also have to setup manual IP routing for the private network
>
> basic examples of how to in Vista 'Here'
> (http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...routing-table/)
>
> hope this helps
>
>
> --
> barman58
>
> Regards,
> *Nigel*
> the beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not
> understand.,- frank herbert
>

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