From: Jesse Montrose (jesse_at_spine.com)
Date: Tue Dec 10 1996 - 15:57:07 EST
At 10:45 AM 12/10/96 -0500, Joseph Escribano wrote:
>In Control Panel/Network, set up TCP->Dial Up Adapter connection. There
>you can specify "Obtain an IP address automatically".
I have that set.
>I've got a TP755C and have cards for a 3COM Ethernet III (combo), Olicom
>Token-Ring and a Motorola Montana 28.8 modem. At work, I usually have one
>of the net cards, TR mostly, and the modem. When I connect from home, I
>disconnect or take out the net card (so that W95 won't try to connect me to
>a network) and just do a dial up connection to my ISP via PPP.
That occurred to me, have you tried using the win95 Hardware Profiles for
that? Our guy couldn't make that work, but it seemed promising to me.
Does it work if you don't remove/disconnect the card?
>At work, I use both the NW32 client for LAN connections and TCP to go into
>the Internet. If I did a dial up connection at work, my LAN and TCP
>connections would be severed but the LAN ones could be restored after a
>dial up connect.
>The TCP connections thru the net cards can be specified for either
>automatic or fixed address assignment.
That came up too, they don't want to switch the entire office network to
dynamic IP though.
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