From: "Dave Saville" Received: from mxout4.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.168] verified) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTP id 278445 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 04:04:02 -0400 Received: from mxin2.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.176]) by mxout4.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GAj2h-0004XT-C0 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 04:03:56 -0400 Received: from mail.deezee.org.uk ([81.187.184.98] helo=pooh.deezee.org) by mxin2.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GAj2g-0005vT-FM for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 04:03:54 -0400 Received: from paddington (brumas [81.187.184.100]) by pooh.deezee.org (Weasel v 1.72) for ; 09 Aug 2006 09:03:41 To: "os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com" Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 09:03:39 +0100 (BST) Reply-To: "Dave Saville" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2.10.2010 for OS/2 Warp 4.05 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Odd routing with two NICs Message-ID: <0032621130.00000NND@pooh.deezee.org> X-Mail-Handler: MailHop by DynDNS X-Spam-Score: -2.2 (--) Normally I either have my laptop on wired or WIFI. They are different networks. Because of the hot weather I have been using WIFI a lot outside and had set XWLan to restore the wireless state on start up. Now I am back inside and, without thinking, wired up the laptop as usual. I use plug keyboard/mouse/Screen/ethernet when in my den. Now because of the problems mentioned before in this group with regard to switching NICs and issues with file & print I always assign a dummy address to the NIC not in use. Now my desktop is connected to both networks and has "ipgate on" Its IP's are 81.187.184.98/255.255.255.248 and 192.168.0.2/255.255.255.0 Once the laptop has booted and XWLAN done it's thing I get on the "unused" NIC on the 81 net 192.168.200.250/255.255.255.0 and the wifi nic 192.168.0.49/255.255.255.0 netstat -r from desktop destination router netmask metric flags intrf default 81.187.184.97 0.0.0.0 0 UGSP lan1 12.172.135.250 81.187.184.97 255.255.255.255 0 UGHW lan1 69.90.217.26 81.187.184.97 255.255.255.255 0 UGHW lan1 81.103.221.14 81.187.184.97 255.255.255.255 0 UGHW3 lan1 81.187.81.187 81.187.184.97 255.255.255.255 0 UGHW3 lan1 81.187.184.96 81.187.184.98 255.255.255.248 0 UC lan1 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 0 UH lo 192.168 192.168.0.2 255.255.255.0 0 UC lan0 195.249.183.204 81.187.184.97 255.255.255.255 0 UGHW lan1 netstat -r from laptop destination router netmask metric flags intrf default 192.168.0.4 0.0.0.0 0 UGP lan1 81.187.184.98 192.168.0.4 255.255.255.255 0 UGHW lan1 81.187.184.103 192.168.0.4 255.255.255.255 0 UGHW lan1 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 0 UH lo 130.88.202.49 192.168.0.4 255.255.255.255 0 UGHW3 lan1 192.168 192.168.0.49 255.255.255.0 0 UC lan1 192.168.200 192.168.200.250 255.255.255.0 0 UC lan0 192.168.201.255 192.168.0.4 255.255.255.255 0 UGHW lan1 Now the odd part. If I do something that requires file & print, for example a directory list on a shared drive, it uses the 81 net - and it works. Now the wired 81 net will get initialised first on an 81 address at boot. Then XWLan comes along reassigns the NIC to 192.168.200.250 and inits the wifif card. *Then* I login to the LAN which gets the shares going. I can't see either why it does what it is doing, nor, more importantly, *why* it actually works. -- Regards Dave Saville