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by sleeper

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Hi,
I've got this portable with integrated network card. I've also got 1 docking station on site A & another identical docking station on site B (each with a network card).
As soon as I 'dock' my portable, the internal NIC is disabled, which is fine(I configured it that way).
Each site (A & B) have different IP ranges (say range A and range B), and I have a fixed (NO dhcp) IP address for each site,
How can I configure it that when I dock my portable in docking station A that I automatically have the correct A ipaddress, and vice versa if I dock in B that I get IP B?
Remark:
- no I can't use dhcp (doesn't matter even in this problem)
- currently, if I configure the NIC of the docking to IP A, and I move my portable to docking B, I still have IP A, which of course doesn't work... (just to make the situation clear)
- no I don't want to put the network cable in the internal NIC of the portable (I wouldn't need a docking station if I would be doing that)
- 3rd party utility can be acceptable, but only as last resort.

TNX A LOT FOR YOUR HELP.

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by awimsatt

Just wanted to add to the previous post. It is true that there is no way to do this save creating two reg files to switch the ips for you, but that would require you to dig into the registry to find out where those settings are.

I use Netswitcher and it does a great job for this type of problem. I even use it to connect a laptop to two seperate domains. It basically just takes two mouse clicks and your ip will be changed on the fly. Plus you can't beat it with only a $9 licensing fee.

--Adam

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