Wireless IP At Work vs. Wireless IP At Home

[rshendrix]

I have a situation where a user needs to be able to take the wireless laptop from work to their home. At work, the laptop has a static IP and the wireless network requires SSID and WEP Key and MAC address filtering. At home, the user has wireless internet access. I'm thinking there is going to be a problem with the static IP address when the user goes home and connects to their wireless network. The wireless router at home will probably try to hand out a DHCP IP address for the wireless card that already has the static IP...what is going to happen here?

I realize separate wireless profiles can be created, but what about the one wireless card and its settings?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Packet7]

Hi,

I think a better approach would be to migrate the WLAN at work to utilize DHCP. You can always create a reservation if a specific IP is needed. If you are worried about security, you should enable MAC Authentication.

Rgds,

John

 

[rshendrix]

Thanks for the quick response.

Utilizing DHCP at work is not a option. One of the main systems requires a known static IP in order to allow access.

Thanks again!

 

[Auger282]

you could setup the user with hardware profiles ... one for work and one for home...

the alternative is setting up the static addressing for the "alternate configuration" under tcpip.. and have the standard set at DHCP...

there will be a time delay for that though.... when it cant find the dhcp server.. it'll configure the "fail safe" backup "static" IP address you have configured.

 

[rshendrix]

I believe I have found what I am looking for, check out this link if anyone else may face this type of problem. I am planning on using the .bat files at the very bottom of the page.

http://www.asp101.com/articles/stanley/nicsettings/default.asp

 

[Spirit]

Stick a bat file on their desktop to change from static to dhcp @ home and vice versa using Netsh.exe;

Something similar to

netsh interface ip set address "Wireless Network Connection" dhcp

Then to set it back to static create a second .bat file on the desktop which has something similar to;

netsh interface ip set address "Wireless Network Connection" static 192.168.0.10 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1 1

(So thats IP Address Subnet Default GW and Metric)

Iain

 

[Spirit]

Oops, sorry just read the linked article.

Sorry for the duplication.

Iain