Wired and Wireless cards

I have 2 network cards, one wireless and one wired. I also have a network
drive that is wired into a router. I want to use the wireless for all
network and internet activities except accessing the network drive for which
I want to use the wired connection. Can I specifiy that the wired card is
used to access the the IP address of the network drive, whilst leaving
everything else to go through the wireless connection.

The wired connection is 192.168.1.20, and the network drive is 192.168.1.10.

I half think that I can specify some sort of routing, but do not know how to
set this up. I am using XP home.

Stephen.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, Stephen Soutar says...
> I have 2 network cards, one wireless and one wired. I also have a network
> drive that is wired into a router. I want to use the wireless for all
> network and internet activities except accessing the network drive for which
> I want to use the wired connection. Can I specifiy that the wired card is
> used to access the the IP address of the network drive, whilst leaving
> everything else to go through the wireless connection.
>
> The wired connection is 192.168.1.20, and the network drive is 192.168.1.10.
>
> I half think that I can specify some sort of routing, but do not know how to
> set this up. I am using XP home.
>
Quite simple...


Use a different subnet for the network storage so assuming you use
255.255.255.0 as the subnet mask, place the network drive on
192.168.2.10 and give the wired network card a 192.168.2.xx IP address.



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Conor

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In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, Stephen Soutar
(E-Mail Removed) says...
> I have 2 network cards, one wireless and one wired. I also have a network
> drive that is wired into a router. I want to use the wireless for all
> network and internet activities except accessing the network drive for which
> I want to use the wired connection. Can I specifiy that the wired card is
> used to access the the IP address of the network drive, whilst leaving
> everything else to go through the wireless connection.
>
> The wired connection is 192.168.1.20, and the network drive is 192.168.1.10.
>
> I half think that I can specify some sort of routing, but do not know how to
> set this up. I am using XP home.
>
ISTR it's something like this - try it and see:

route add mmm.mmm.mmm.mmm mask 255.255.255.255 nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn

where mmm.mmm.mmm.mmm is the address of the network drive and
nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn is the address of the ethernet card.

Just stick that in a batch file and run it on startup/login.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)> , Rob Morley
(E-Mail Removed) says...
> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, Stephen Soutar
> (E-Mail Removed) says...
> > I have 2 network cards, one wireless and one wired. I also have a network
> > drive that is wired into a router. I want to use the wireless for all
> > network and internet activities except accessing the network drive for which
> > I want to use the wired connection. Can I specifiy that the wired card is
> > used to access the the IP address of the network drive, whilst leaving
> > everything else to go through the wireless connection.
> >
> > The wired connection is 192.168.1.20, and the network drive is 192.168.1.10.
> >
> > I half think that I can specify some sort of routing, but do not know how to
> > set this up. I am using XP home.
> >
> ISTR it's something like this - try it and see:
>
> route add mmm.mmm.mmm.mmm mask 255.255.255.255 nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn
>
> where mmm.mmm.mmm.mmm is the address of the network drive and
> nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn is the address of the ethernet card.
>
> Just stick that in a batch file and run it on startup/login.
>
I just looked it up - once you've checked that it works, if you run the
command with the -p flag (i.e. route -p ...) it becomes persistent and
you won't need to load it from a batch file.

Thanks, I tried your suggestion, but couldn't get it to work.

However, what I did try with partial success, was setting the Interface
Metric manually in the TCP/IP properties for the NICs. I set the metric to 1
on the wired card, and to 25 on the wireless. This did allow me to send data
to the network drive via the wired card, but the data still comes from the
network drive via the wireless card.

My network has a wireless adsl router and a netgear WGPS606 wireless print
server. The network drive is plugged into the print server, and I am trying
to plug the desktop PC into the print server as well. I think the problem
may be in the print server, in that it is sending all its data via the main
wireless router.





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> In article <(E-Mail Removed)> , Rob Morley
> (E-Mail Removed) says...
>> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, Stephen Soutar
>> (E-Mail Removed) says...
>> > I have 2 network cards, one wireless and one wired. I also have a
>> > network
>> > drive that is wired into a router. I want to use the wireless for all
>> > network and internet activities except accessing the network drive for
>> > which
>> > I want to use the wired connection. Can I specifiy that the wired card
>> > is
>> > used to access the the IP address of the network drive, whilst leaving
>> > everything else to go through the wireless connection.
>> >
>> > The wired connection is 192.168.1.20, and the network drive is
>> > 192.168.1.10.
>> >
>> > I half think that I can specify some sort of routing, but do not know
>> > how to
>> > set this up. I am using XP home.
>> >
>> ISTR it's something like this - try it and see:
>>
>> route add mmm.mmm.mmm.mmm mask 255.255.255.255 nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn
>>
>> where mmm.mmm.mmm.mmm is the address of the network drive and
>> nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn is the address of the ethernet card.
>>
>> Just stick that in a batch file and run it on startup/login.
>>
> I just looked it up - once you've checked that it works, if you run the
> command with the -p flag (i.e. route -p ...) it becomes persistent and
> you won't need to load it from a batch file.