DHCP and static ip simultaneously, one nic ?

I could ask about static ip's, but as i now bought that another nic.. it is working fine.

but thx anyway.

Its doable. First open up your tcpip properties window and set it for Automatically Obtain. Once that is done click on the Alternate Configuration tab and setup your static IP address. Your PC will first try to obtain a Dynamic IP, if it can't get one after about 2 minuts it will switch to the static IP you set. I used only static IPs here at home and setup my daughters netbook this way. She complained about the 2 minute wait but it worked. Doing this let me keep my static IPs at home and her netbook would still work on other networks.

Actually not, what i'm looking for.. to use dynamic and static ip simultanously, one network card (2 networks) (win7)

sillik said:

Google is full of "alternative config" suggestions, but they aren't what i'm looking for.
(since it is for the "if DHCP isn't available" situation)

OK, I missed the "at the same time" part.

I'm looking answer to this too, on winxp it worked with some registery hacking but now it doesnt seem to work...

Could there be an alternative with cloning the real nic into virtual one which connects to the LAN?

I want to bypass the modem bridge mode with this "hack" also its for some extra security...

Please don't start with the question "why you want to do that? why not use routed+nat?" :) and no, alternate configuration does not work.

mckillwashere said:

Jaska said:

I'm looking answer to this too, on winxp it worked with some registery hacking but now it doesnt seem to work...

Could there be an alternative with cloning the real nic into virtual one which connects to the LAN?

I want to bypass the modem bridge mode with this "hack" also its for some extra security...

Please don't start with the question "why you want to do that? why not use routed+nat?" :) and no, alternate configuration does not work.

Extra security?
Giving yourself a Static ip is more secure?
When did this happen?

And yes you man make virtual Nics in vms. if your wanting to be more secure you would be using one :)

It's easier and more secure to manage LAN services if no one from the internet can reach them when the firewall is either on or off. (static ip for lan services + dhcp for internet)dns cache server, mailserver, fileserver and all that.

But yeah I'm back to routed mode, had too many problems with wlan+bridged mode. The modem I'm using has some hardware bugs that causes it to lose wlan connection, though now there is some performance issues >_>

Probably need to buy new modem...

Jaska said:

I'm looking answer to this too, on winxp it worked with some registery hacking but now it doesnt seem to work...

Could there be an alternative with cloning the real nic into virtual one which connects to the LAN?

I want to bypass the modem bridge mode with this "hack" also its for some extra security...

Please don't start with the question "why you want to do that? why not use routed+nat?" :) and no, alternate configuration does not work.

I'm also looking for this answer. As you say, you could do it on WinXP (and I'm not sure you even needed a registry hack to do it either), but the functionality seems to have been removed from both Windows Vista & Windows 7.

Surely there must be some registry hack or something to get this working again?