Wireless and Wired connection

[schronuts]

Is there any way to have my laptop point to the wireless card for internet and point to the lan nic card for everything else?

I basically want to off load the internet traffic onto a wireless hotspot and still be able to access my networked drives. Thanks!!

 

[intelwizrd]

You can change the interface metrics and force the computer to prefer the wireless link over the wired connection (preference is wired over wireless if I am not mistaken). Then you can add a persistent route for local networks to use the wired interface.

On a windows system, metrics are normally given automatically but you can change them in the Advanced TCP/IP settings for the adapter. The higher the metric number the lower the preference. Then you can use the route command (type route -? for syntax) to add a persistent route for the local connection.

Example
LAN interface ip 192.168.1.100 id 1 force metric to 20 (default would be ~ 10)
WLAN interface ip 192.168.1.101 id 2 force metric to 10 (default would be ~ 25)

route -p add 192.168.1.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.100 metric 1 if 1

this will tell it to route local traffic via your wired LAN (assuming network of 192.168.1.0/24), all other traffic will prefer your wired connection.