Desparately need help with simultaneous connections

[Guest]

Hi all,

Having a bit of problem at work where I am trying to connect to the Internet
via Mobile phone using a USB connection while maintaining my office LAN
connections. It is important for me that I use have both connections on at
the same time.Currently as soon as I connect via phone, LAN connection is
automatically disconnected, and reconnects only when PPP is disconnected. LAN
connections at the office is using DHCP server, so dynamic IP addresses, so
not sure if static IP address would be able to solve this problem.

I'm not even sure if it is possible that two network connections are used at
the same time. I was kind of hoping that they can simultaneously be connected
and have LAN as primary network interface and PPP as secondary. My PC at work
is using Windows 2000 OS, and the LAN at work is Windows 2000 domain.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Regards,

Mary

 

[Kurt]

You should be able to have a PPP connection and a LAN connection at the same
time. A couple of possibilities, your PPP software may be giving you an IP
address on the same subnet as your work LAN. Or your work connection may be
routed, and the default gateway from the PPP settings is confllicting with
or superceding the LAN settings. Or maybe it's a security "feature" of the
USB PPP software. You'll have to use some basic tools - ping, tracert,
ipconfig, route print to see where packets are being sent and see if you can
either change some settings or manually override them.

....kurt

 

[Guest]

Hi Kurt,

Thanks heaps for your advice, I would definite check at work tommorow and
see if I can get I.T support to help out with the network parts. So it is
definitely not a Windows problem, and that Windows allows two network
connections to work simultaneously right?

Thanks heaps!

Mary

 

[Kurt]

Windows definitely supports multiple simultaneous connections. IT should be
no different than dialling a modem and still having LAN access.

....kurt