Change priority of LAN and Wireless

[Guest Brandon E.]

Is there a way to have server 2003 use the wireless only for internet and the

LAN for local network activity? I got them both connected but the server is

always trying to use the LAN for internet but there is no internet on the

lan. it's the wireless that has the internet. Any suggestions would be

greatly appreciated!

 

Thanks!

[Guest Bill Grant]

Re: Change priority of LAN and Wireless

 

How does the machine get its network config? If both NICs get their config

from DHCP there is not much you can do unless you have control of the DHCP

server. (Incidently, why do you have both wired and wireless NICs in a

server? Are they both getting IP addresses in the same IP subnet)?

 

If you do the config manually, make sure that only the wireless NIC has a

default gateway set.

 

"Brandon E." <BrandonE@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> Is there a way to have server 2003 use the wireless only for internet and

> the

> LAN for local network activity? I got them both connected but the server

> is

> always trying to use the LAN for internet but there is no internet on the

> lan. it's the wireless that has the internet. Any suggestions would be

> greatly appreciated!

>

> Thanks!

[Guest Brandon E.]

Re: Change priority of LAN and Wireless

 

No the Lan is on a different network which is just setup as local LAN to

access and share files. The wireless is connected to a different network

which is the internet. The server isn't setup as a DHCP. It's just acting

right now as a storage server. The local LAN get's it's IP from the router

that is setup as a DHCP. And the wireless from another network.

 

"Bill Grant" wrote:

> How does the machine get its network config? If both NICs get their config

> from DHCP there is not much you can do unless you have control of the DHCP

> server. (Incidently, why do you have both wired and wireless NICs in a

> server? Are they both getting IP addresses in the same IP subnet)?

>

> If you do the config manually, make sure that only the wireless NIC has a

> default gateway set.

>

> "Brandon E." <BrandonE@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:108F5D05-2541-4CE2-9AC1-AC07F7D99D71@microsoft.com...

> > Is there a way to have server 2003 use the wireless only for internet and

> > the

> > LAN for local network activity? I got them both connected but the server

> > is

> > always trying to use the LAN for internet but there is no internet on the

> > lan. it's the wireless that has the internet. Any suggestions would be

> > greatly appreciated!

> >

> > Thanks!

>

>

[Guest Brandon E.]

RE: Change priority of LAN and Wireless

 

Ok I got it working. Thank you so much. It was the simplest thing. I just

left the default gateway blank on the LAN leaving the ip address and subnet

and left the wireless' default ip gateway and settings it was assigned. The

server now gets the internet from the wireless and the LAN is just used for

local connections.

 

Thanks!!!

 

 

"Brandon E." wrote:

> Is there a way to have server 2003 use the wireless only for internet and the

> LAN for local network activity? I got them both connected but the server is

> always trying to use the LAN for internet but there is no internet on the

> lan. it's the wireless that has the internet. Any suggestions would be

> greatly appreciated!

>

> Thanks!

[Guest Justin Rich]

Re: Change priority of LAN and Wireless

 

just as a little extra info.. if you open up the network connection list

there is an Advanced menu, and if you select Advanced Settings you can

change the connection priority.

 

what you did with removing the default gateway is the best solution, but you

can also change the device priority.

 

Justin

 

"Brandon E." <BrandonE@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:F2A3DBE8-6E3F-42AB-9825-1F4D9DDC4D3A@microsoft.com...

> Ok I got it working. Thank you so much. It was the simplest thing. I just

> left the default gateway blank on the LAN leaving the ip address and

> subnet

> and left the wireless' default ip gateway and settings it was assigned.

> The

> server now gets the internet from the wireless and the LAN is just used

> for

> local connections.

>

> Thanks!!!

>

>

> "Brandon E." wrote:

>

>> Is there a way to have server 2003 use the wireless only for internet and

>> the

>> LAN for local network activity? I got them both connected but the server

>> is

>> always trying to use the LAN for internet but there is no internet on the

>> lan. it's the wireless that has the internet. Any suggestions would be

>> greatly appreciated!

>>

>> Thanks!