Wireless LAN with a wire segment

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Proki - 30 Nov 2004 20:31 GMT

Hi Folks,
will anyone try to help me with this.
My home network looks like this:
ASUS ADSLmodem/router 192.168.0.1
D-Link AP 900+ wireless access point IP 192.168.0.3
3x PC on D-Link wireless graphic adapters IP 192.168.0.4 - 192.168.0.6
So have NO ISC but rather a separate ASUS router
Zonealarm FW rather than MS Firewall is installed on each PC
everything ok - internet access, file and printers sharing
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Two of the PCs are located in one room so it is easy to connect them by a
twisted Ethernet wire. I want to do so to to facilitate the connection
between them for mass volume tasks (back-ups etc).
Now:
1) What IP adresses should I use for the Ethernet adapter the same segment
ones 192.168.0.X or a different segment ones like 192.168.1.X ?
2) Can I bridge? or bind? the two adapters so that each of the two PCs has
its one IP address if the same subnet IP can be used?
3) If different subnet IP must be used how do I decide which subnet is used
to access the other computer if both wire and wireless route are available
(e.g. for files sharing) and
4) the wire segment has no gateway, correct? So no IP address is willed in
the properties of the ITC/IP protocol card as well ans no DNS IP is there.

Thanks for any help or lead .

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Steve Winograd [MVP] - 30 Nov 2004 23:00 GMT

>Hi Folks,
>will anyone try to help me with this.
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>
>Thanks for any help or lead .

1. With two independent network adapters, use a different subnet for
each, like 192.168.0.x for wireless and 192.168.1.x for wired.

2. Yes, you can bridge the wireless and wired network adapters so that
each PC has only one IP address. However, I don't know how you could
then control which adapter to use for fire transfers between the
computers.

3. Here's a method that might make access to the other computer
always use the wired connection, but I haven't tested it:

a. Open the Network Connections folder.
b. Click Advanced | Advanced Settings.
c. Under Connections, click the up/down arrows as necessary to
put the wired connection first in the list.

Here's a method that I know will work: refer to the other computer
using its wired IP address, not its computer name. For example, use
\\192.168.1.2 instead of \\computer.

4. The wired segment doesn't need a gateway, because it doesn't
connect to any subnet other than its own. It doesn't need DNS,
either, since it doesn't connect to the Internet.

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