From: Matt Winston (mattwinston_at_ameritech.net)
Date: Mon Oct 22 2001 - 15:03:23 EDT
Could be that TCP/IP is unable to unbind from the LAN connection to use the
modem.
What network protocols are being used?
Matt
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From: "Quantrill, Adam" <AQuantrill_at_scigen.co.uk>
To: "'Jeff Wright'" <jeffw_at_bigpond.net.au>; <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 4:55 AM
Subject: RE: Connecting to dial-up ISP and ethernet LAN simultaneously
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> It's probably a combination of a router and a nameserver issue.
> You'd have to make sure you have a route to your comapny LAN
> after dialup (ppp tends to do its own thing with the routes) and you
> may have to make sure you can access nameservers on both sides.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Wright [mailto:jeffw_at_bigpond.net.au]
> Sent: Friday, 19 October, 2001 3:21 AM
> To: thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu
> Subject: Connecting to dial-up ISP and ethernet LAN simultaneously
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>
> I am running a T22 (builtin ethernet and modem) with Win2000. Whenever I
am
> connected to the company LAN with mapped network drives and then I
instigate
> a dialup internet connection, I am unable to access the mapped drives.
>
> In addition, using the W2K Offline Files feature and having documents open
> when I dialup sometimes caused corruption to those documents.
>
> Does anyone know if this is simply a limitation and that I cannot expect
to
> get the two connections going happily at once, or is there some settings I
> could investigate.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff Wright
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