Re: Wireless networking question
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Tuesday 29 Oct 2002 8:25 pm, Ray wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:44:57PM +0100, Balazs Javor wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've recently bought a notebook, and I'm planning to buy
> > a wireless network card (PCMCIA) for it as well.
> >
> > My question is, that the notebook also contains a built in
> > 100 MBit NIC, and I'm not sure whether I'd need to do anything
> > special to make the two work together...
No, what youll probably find (true with me) is that inserting the wireless
card will cause that to become the default network interface.
> > Presuming that installing the wireless NIC goes well,
> > if I assign it the next available IP on the same subnet than
> > the 100 MBit is on, would it work automatically?
For a start, the wireless and cabled network should NOT be on the same subnet,
they are physically 2 different networks. Also, you cant use 2 nics in the
same machine on the same subnet, unless you are trying to do bridging (or am
i thinking of bonding?) to increase the bandwidth. It sounds like you need to
read up some more on general ip networking.
> > If I then disconnect the fixed ethernet cable to move around,
> > would all trafic then automatically be routed through the
> > other NIC?
Most cards (i belive) have no idea that youve unplugged the cable, so no
actual settings will change, but if your wireless card has the default route
anyway it wont matter.
On another note, may i reccomend the netgear MA401 wireless card, ive been
using it now for a little over a month and it is a brilliant bit of kit.
Tom
- --
Email: tb100@doc.ic.ac.uk || Jabber: tombadran@jabber.com
Homepage: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~tb100
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux)
iD8DBQE9vwNPXCpWOla2mCcRAt0EAKCoeRKevMKCwDBAAJWlwIV4JgdRlQCeMbM4
mR1+sitytv+F1F3x3xSRWnU=
=eOyA
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Reply to: