Two networks on a computer.

[Yorus]

Hello everyone!, a little doubt about network configurations and my specific case so that you understand it.

Situation:

At my job I have a local network with internet access (limited), the management application and other local tasks, and on the other hand I have a wifi to which I have been authorized to connect for downloads and various tasks. Until now I used a laptop for the wifi, but since it's very broken I had thought about using both things from the desktop.

Network characteristics:

Both normal, but with a problem, both use the range 192.168.1.x

Operating system:

Windows XP Pro SP3

What I had thought:

Well, my idea was to create some static routes, but I'm not sure if the fact that both networks are in the same range, and both routers are 192.168.1.1, will complicate things a lot.

How do you see it?, have you ever messed with this?

[Fassou]

So off the top of my head, I think you should have two physical network cards, leaving one for the normal network, properly configured, and the other for tinkering and downloads, just set the IP and mask.

You create a virtual machine to have and contain the downloads, and associate it with the physical network card for downloads, completely configuring the "virtual" card.

So you'll have both things in the same computer, and some additional security, separating the tinkering part.

Regards!

[Yorus]

It's not a bad idea, although I run into the "raw power" of my machine:

Pentium IV 3Ghz

768 Mb RAM (DDR, not DDR2)

40Gb hard drive

As you can see… :ugly:

[garfield]

I think that in the advanced IP4 settings, if you add another IP address, it allows you to access both at the same time. I read it somewhere, I can't remember where, from a guy who said the client couldn't print, and it was that the printer decided to change its IP and put the generic one of 167.x.x.x. and he fixed it by adding that address in that part. But I can't find the page. I don't know if it will be useful for this.

I found where I saw it:

How to put two IPs on the same network card and access two different ranges at the same time

[Yorus]

In my case it is somewhat different, since they are two differentiated networks but they are configured with the same range, and that complicates everything.

[garfield]

Uh, well, when you figure it out, you already know that you have to explain it here

[Fassou]

With that cucumber of a team :troll:, and using Windows XP, you can install MS VirtualPC, which works very well and doesn't consume as many resources as VMWare or VirtualBox.

Salu2! and you'll keep us posted.

[Yorus]

@Fassou:

With that cucumber of a team :troll:, and using Windows XP, you can install MS VirtualPC, which works very well and doesn't consume as many resources as VMWare or VirtualBox.

Cheers! and let us know how it goes.

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I think if I can use route add to direct traffic according to my needs because it turns out it has an additional parameter that I was unaware of, which specifies the interface through which we will work in that range of addresses:

To add a static IP route

Open Command Prompt.

At the command prompt, type:

route add destination mask subnetmask gateway metric cost metric if interface

where:

Static IP route entry Definition

destination

Specifies either an IP address or host name for the network or host.

subnetmask

Specifies a subnet mask to be associated with this route entry. If subnetmask is not specified, 255.255.255.255 is used.

gateway

Specifies either an IP address or host name for the gateway or router to use when forwarding.

costmetric

Assigns an integer cost metric (ranging from 1 through 9,999) to be used in calculating the fastest, most reliable, and/or least expensive routes. If costmetric is not specified, 1 is used.

interface

Specifies the interface to be used for the route that uses the interface number. If an interface is not specified, the interface to be used for the route is determined from the gateway IP address.
For example, to add a static route to the 10.0.0.0 network that uses a subnet mask of 255.0.0.0, a gateway of 192.168.0.1, and a cost metric of 2, you type the following at a command prompt:

route add 10.0.0.0 mask 255.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 metric 2

The issue would be to say that everything on the 192.168.1.0 network goes out through ethernet and the rest through wifi. Let's see if I can manage it.