I use my laptop at work and home but at work it is set up to obtain an IP address automatically from our DHCP Server and at home I have a constant IP address for my cable Internet connection. I tried creating two hardware profiles each with the different settings but it does not keep the separate settings for each profile. Please help. Thank you.
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Hardware Profile with 2 different IP addresses on a laptop. 1
- Thread starter Taco
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If you have a Network card for work, and you use a modem for internet access at home, you should have a dialup adapter TCP/IP and a NIC TCP/IP, if not make them!!! and here you can have a set IP address for your modem at home, and then a seperate one for your DHCP server for you NIC card in work.
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I think this is right!!! Jay~
"I have to think of a funny footer to
put in here!!!???"
~KeyTech
paulm22
MIS
- Jun 22, 2001
- 17
I use a Ethernet connection at work, and on the laptop have installed System Commander so I can boot separate OS's, without them seeing each other. This allows me to use a wireless NIC at home, recomend that, it's nice! this is a little complicated but helpsme to use the laptop as a work desktop with no home network/mail/apps confusion.
You didn't say what OS you were using. If it is Win XP You can use the Alternate Configuration functionality provided by XP.
You use a mobile computer at your office and at your home. When you are in the office, the computer uses a DHCP-allocated TCP/IP configuration. When you are at home (where you do not have access to a DHCP server), the computer automatically uses the alternative configuration.
To use the Alternate Configuration feature:
On the Start menu, click Control Panel .
Click Network and Internet Connections .
Click Network Connections .
Right-click the local area network (LAN) or high-speed Internet connection that you want to configure and click Properties .
Click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click Properties .
Click the Alternate Configuration tab.
As an alternative, take your sys admin to lunch and convince him/her to assign you a fixed IP at work. Then you can bind more than on IP address to your NIC. You do this from the Advanced Properties of the TCP/IP protocol. If it is a very good lunch you may get the sys admin to help.
Having multiple IPs (w/ appropriate submasks) bound to a single NIC allows the NIC to participate/respond to whichever network it is attached to. If you use different DNS servers at work/home just add all the addresses to the list.
The two rules for success are:
1. Never tell them everything you know.
You use a mobile computer at your office and at your home. When you are in the office, the computer uses a DHCP-allocated TCP/IP configuration. When you are at home (where you do not have access to a DHCP server), the computer automatically uses the alternative configuration.
To use the Alternate Configuration feature:
On the Start menu, click Control Panel .
Click Network and Internet Connections .
Click Network Connections .
Right-click the local area network (LAN) or high-speed Internet connection that you want to configure and click Properties .
Click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click Properties .
Click the Alternate Configuration tab.
As an alternative, take your sys admin to lunch and convince him/her to assign you a fixed IP at work. Then you can bind more than on IP address to your NIC. You do this from the Advanced Properties of the TCP/IP protocol. If it is a very good lunch you may get the sys admin to help.
Having multiple IPs (w/ appropriate submasks) bound to a single NIC allows the NIC to participate/respond to whichever network it is attached to. If you use different DNS servers at work/home just add all the addresses to the list.
The two rules for success are:
1. Never tell them everything you know.
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HugoGuessit
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If you are not using Win XP, I'd recommend you just get anohter nic. Assign an IP to each nic and move on with life, rather than worry about whether your modem has TCP/IP dial-up installed as Keytech recommends.
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I agree with HugoGuessit. A simple solution to a simple problem. If your NIC is built-in you can still buy/use a PCMCIA NIC. Should be able to find one for less than $100. When you plug it in the system will recognize it and its conifg will be as you set it up.
But still take your sys admin to lunch. Maybe he/she has an old NIC to give you. :-D
The two rules for success are:
1. Never tell them everything you know.
But still take your sys admin to lunch. Maybe he/she has an old NIC to give you. :-D
The two rules for success are:
1. Never tell them everything you know.
Actually, I found a PCMCIA Xircom NIC (combo card - ethernet & 56k) at Pricewatch.Com for $20 before shipping. Hope that's incentive enough just to get another NIC.
Unfortunately, there's not a native way to set different settings for one network adapter in Win9x. You'll have to either buy an additional NIC as suggested above, or use 3rd-party software. NetSwitcher is one app that I know of off-hand that can remedy your problem. Go to and search for the latest version. If my memory serves me correctly, I believe it is shareware.
~cdogg
Unfortunately, there's not a native way to set different settings for one network adapter in Win9x. You'll have to either buy an additional NIC as suggested above, or use 3rd-party software. NetSwitcher is one app that I know of off-hand that can remedy your problem. Go to and search for the latest version. If my memory serves me correctly, I believe it is shareware.
~cdogg
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