I would suggest you get the shareware version of Sygate when you get Cable
in your area.  Also you can purchase an additonal NIC for the server
machine.

Then you can set up Sygate to assign IP's to each machine on the network
when they log in using DHCP. To enable DHCP support in windows, Goto Control
Panel>Network>TCP/IP select the WINS tab, select ENABLE DHCP at the bottom
of that window.

You might contact your Network Administrator and see if your Work LAN also
supports DHCP, that way you won't have to go in and change IPs.



--Patrick Black

----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Simmons <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 8:48 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Two networks, One NIC on Laptop


> Our area is slated to get cable modem access this year (Yeah!!). I have
> already started planning to implement a home network with my two home PC's
> to share a cable connection  when I can get it. I would probably set the
> home network using NETBEUI.  I have read about and think I can handle
> setting up the home network.... but:
>
> I also use an IBM ThinkPad 600 (400 MZ, 96M RAM, Win 95b) with a PCMCIA
> Ethernet NIC in one slot and a PCMCIA dialup modem in the other. While I'm
> at work it is on the company LAN running TCPIP.  Now the problem.  What is
> the easiest way to connect the laptop to my home network each night and on
> weekends?  One way to do it would be to change all the installed NIC's
> network settings to home settings each night and back to work settings
each
> morning (a big pain!). Another may be (??) to buy another brand of PCMCIA
> NIC, set it up with my home network settings and leave the work NIC and
> settings alone (I don't know if this would work).  Then I would use my
> currently installed NIC at work, the new NIC at home, and  if I need to
use
> my dialup modem, change it for one of the NIC's.
>
> Does anyone swap a laptop regularly between two different LAN's, and if so
> what do you do?  Also any other options?  Will the two NIC option work?
I'm
> not heavy in the networking area.
>

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