Static AND DHCP on same NIC

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I'm working with a Dell Latitude D400 with Windows 2000
installed. It has an onboard NIC (Broadcom 57x Gigabit)
and a port replicator with passthrough for the NIC.

When the person using this laptop is in the office (using
the port replicator) she needs a static IP to get out the
office's T1. When she's travelling she needs to use DHCP.
She's been manually changing her IP information depending
on her location, but she's not a techie at all and this
isn't the way we'd like to leave things.

Is there a way, through profiles or something, that I can
set up 2 different configurations for the same NIC, one
with static info and one with DHCP? The regular
docked/undocked profiles just use the same NIC and
therefore the same settings, meaning the settings carry
over and are not profile specific.

In the end I suppose I could ship out a PCMCIA NIC for her
to use while on the road but I'd rather there were a way
to solve this without the added expense. Somehow I just
feel Windows is capable of what I need here.

Kag.
 
Kagonos said:
I'm working with a Dell Latitude D400 with Windows 2000
installed. It has an onboard NIC (Broadcom 57x Gigabit)
and a port replicator with passthrough for the NIC.

When the person using this laptop is in the office (using
the port replicator) she needs a static IP to get out the
office's T1.
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Why can't you set up DHCP on the office network?
When she's travelling she needs to use DHCP.
She's been manually changing her IP information depending
on her location, but she's not a techie at all and this
isn't the way we'd like to leave things.

Is there a way, through profiles or something, that I can
set up 2 different configurations for the same NIC, one
with static info and one with DHCP? The regular
docked/undocked profiles just use the same NIC and
therefore the same settings, meaning the settings carry
over and are not profile specific.
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There's a third party app called NetSwitcher that might work for her.
www.netswitcher.com, I believe.
In the end I suppose I could ship out a PCMCIA NIC for her
to use while on the road but I'd rather there were a way
to solve this without the added expense. Somehow I just
feel Windows is capable of what I need here.
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If you use DHCP in your office this isn't a problem anymore - why use
statics in this day & age?
 
Her office is off site for us, in a commercial building.
The office is using another company's T1, not our. She's
sorts "hitching a ride" with them, that's why the static.

I'll check out the link you included. Thanks.

Kag.
 
Kagonos said:
Her office is off site for us, in a commercial building.
The office is using another company's T1, not our.
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If they're on a shared network with other companies they ought to put in
their own firewall/router to protect their own network. But that's neither
here nor there for your purposes. Make sure she has a good firewall on her
computer and doesn't allow any inbound traffic at all....
She's
sorts "hitching a ride" with them, that's why the static.

I'll check out the link you included. Thanks.
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Hope it helps - I haven't used it but I've heard it works.
 
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