Hi, Thank you all for your suggestions. They basically confirm my fears that it isn't going to be very simple. I must admit I'm not a networking expert, allthough I thought, that I have a good understanding of the basics. Please let me give you some more details on my (probably typical) setup and some of my goals/assumptions. Maybe you could then suggest me the best way to proceed:
I have an ADSL router connected to a network switch along with 3 PCs connected to the same switch. They all are on the same subnet and all have the router as the default gateway. So long so fine. They can all talk to each other, share files and access the Internet. Now comes the notebook. I have configured (for now) the built-in NIC the same way as with the other machines, so it works as well. Now, I've ordered the Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card along with the RG-1100 wireless access point. It is my understanding that you can set up the access point to act purely as a bridge. Where my assumption was that it will basically act as a "wire to radio signal converter" and if it were not for the built-in NIC, I could just plug the access point into the switch, the PCMCIA card into the notebook and configure the card to be on the same subnet as the other machines, and everything would work as before. And if this is the only easy way, then I would simply not use the built-in NIC. However, since the built-in NIC is about 10 times faster, I was kinda hoping that I could somehow make it possible, that whenever I am at my desk or whenever I need to transfer large amount of data to the notebook I could just simply "switch" to the built-in NIC. Now if I need to configure either of the cards to be on a separate subnet I would need to route that subnet to the original network somehow as both the fileserver and the Internet gateway are on that one. So I would need to set up one of the other machines with another NIC and set it up to be the router between the two networks. And this I think is a bit too complicated for what I wanted to use it for... However maybe it is possible to have both NICs be configured for the same IP address and manually switch between them, so that only one of them is up at a given moment? So what do you think is the best approach? Many thanks again for your help! regards, Balazs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
