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2012-10-02 04:40 28005647 Leather Doc 2 NICs 2 Networks (RageFace.jpg 620x520 79kB)
Here's what I'm trying to do: I need to connect to two physically separate networks. One is corporate, the other is development. I'm running windows 7, with 1 Ethernet and wireless NIC. The Ethernet is connected to the development network, and the wireless NIC is connected to the corporate network. This works pretty well on Linux and XP but windows 7 is being obnoxious. As soon as I connect the Ethernet my wireless disconnects which leaves me with only the dev network. I've gone up and down google with no luck.

3 min later 28005682 Anonymous
Go into control panel. Select both connections Right click -> bridge connections ??? Profit

5 min later 28005715 Anonymous
>>28005682 ^

6 min later 28005735 Anonymous
>>28005682 kill yourself moron

8 min later 28005753 Anonymous
use linux, you said yourself it works

9 min later 28005764 Anonymous
It can only do one at a time, sry.

11 min later 28005792 Leather Doc 2 NICs 2 Networks
No such luck (to killing myself and bridging). When I'm connected wirelesslly bridging the connections creates the bridge but wireless drops out. And the opposite occurs if I create a bridge while connected to Ethernet.

11 min later 28005798 Anonymous
it's been a while since i used windows, but i don't recall it being so primitive that it can't connect to a wireless and a wired network at the same time

13 min later 28005826 Leather Doc 2 NICs 2 Networks
I'd love to use just Linux, But the redtape that's involved with getting the "IT" department to put a Linux machine onto the domain isn't worth it.

15 min later 28005847 Anonymous
>>28005826 how about two windows VM's, each connected to seperate NIC's? (host being linux)

15 min later 28005849 Anonymous
Set the other network manually and don't configure a gateway device.

17 min later 28005880 Anonymous
Stop using Windows, it's for faggots and retards who can't computer.

37 min later 28006161 Leather Doc 2 NICs 2 Networks
Holy Santa Claus shit. I figured it out. It was my internal wireless NIC. I plugged my USB Proxim Orinoco in and my Ethernet stayed active and I was able to connect to the domain, and access my servers. Windows was just being Windows, as usual. The bridge is still in place and appears to be working. My guess is that Windows was treating the internal wireless NIC differently (could be because of drivers or maybe it just can't do bridging). Thank you to those who gave positive reinforcement (Yes, windows is for faggots, but the world is ran by faggots so we must bow to the whim of stupidity... That's more Apple actually).

1 hours later 28007207 Anonymous
>>28006161 This sounds like a vendor problem, not a Windows problem. Maybe the dumb chinese nigger who designed your laptop's mainboard is to blame.

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