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Date:  Sun, 17 Oct 2004 13:07:05 -0400
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From:  Lewis G Rosenthal <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com
Subject: [OS2Wireless] Wireless LAN Monitor vs wired/wireless cmd files

I'll check on this phenomenon later today, Andy. Thanks for making the 
point. I did check to make sure that loopback was enabled in that setup, 
BTW.

I normally use two separate CONFIG.SYS': one for wired, and the other 
wireless. As we have no way of hot or warm undocking under OS/2 (that I 
have been able to find), I have to shut down anyway, so it's no great 
pain for me to just reboot to the alternate CONFIG. Obviously, there is 
still a price to be paid, as every time I install something new which 
needs updates to PATH, LIBPATH, DEVICE, etc., I have to mirror those 
changes to the other CONFIG.

The same setup goes for my brother, who rarely uses his WiFi connection, 
except when he's at a hotel. My wife and my mom both use WiFi 
exclusively, so I don't even bring up their wired interfaces (and yes, 
all these machines are running either eCS 1.1 or Warp 4.5).

Again, thanks for the pointer. Looking forward to seeing you again next 
week. Hopefully, we can get out for some more Tex-Mex this trip! ;-)  
(BTW, & OT, I received some regular mail from Doug Henning up through 
July of last year, and then nothing. I've sent him some notes here and 
there, but haven't heard back. Have you - or has anyone else - heard 
from him recently?)

On 10/17/2004 12:39 am, Andy Willis thus wrote :

> Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
>
>> In my further test setups for class next week, I've been playing with 
>> wired/wireless configurations. What I've found is that by using 
>> Christian's utility, it isn't really necessary to use scripts for 
>> bringing down the wired interface. Interestingly, the wired NIC comes 
>> up first using DHCP, and then XWLAN brings up the WiFi card and 
>> enables DHCP for that. Both interfaces remain active. I haven't yet 
>> actually tested the individual connections (I was testing while 
>> docked, and never actually pulled the cable from the dock), but this 
>> seems infinitely easier than fussing with different scripts to bring 
>> the interfaces down and up.
>>
>> Any thoughts along these lines?
>>
> One thing I have seen is that using wxlan I do not have loopback.  
> IOW, if the wired card is in the system then I can ping localhost but 
> if the wired card is not in and I have the wireless card in the system 
> and use wxlan to set it up I cannot ping localhost.  If I setup the 
> wireless card using mpts (such that the wireless card replaces the 
> wired card) I then have loopback (can ping localhost).  I haven't ever 
> played with any of the scripts so I don't know if it works that way or 
> not.  Both my cards are pcmcia and only one is in at a time.  When 
> using wxlan both are in mpts with the primary setup being the wired 
> card and tcpip being established for the wireless card by wxlan.  Have 
> anyone else seen this?  If so, is there a way to get it to work with 
> the wireless card when using wxlan?
> Andy
>

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Lewis
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