Hello!

I have a similar situation: one laptop that goes between a TCP/IP network at
work and a NetBEUI network at home. Guess what? Because the networks are
based on different protocols, the laptop "uses" the network it is on and
ignores the other. I do name the home network workgroup differently from the
work one. Otherwise when I would get online and connect to work, everyone at
work could see my home network machines.

I hope this helps.

best,

Will Stephenson ><>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 8:49 AM
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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.

TIA

Doug

Doug Simmons

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