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Re: [LUG] OT: Windows XP Laptops

 

On Wednesday 12 July 2006 00:47, Mark Evans wrote:
> If I actually had direct control over the network infrastructure it
> would be fairly trivial to sort out. Right now I think it might be
> easier to get a Vogon to save his grandmother from being eaten by the
> Ravenous Bug-Blatter Beast of Trall than to get a VLAN configuration
> changed in a PFI building.

bit of a hack, but you might be able to bind the DHCP assigned address to 
loopback, then enable proxy arp and a default route on both interfaces, one 
with a lower metric than the other.

maybe.  just maybe.

"better" solution in your case might be a quick C app to do it with an 
overlapped call to a media sense function - see Iphlpapi docs on MSDN.

 ~ theo

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