Actually, my version of XP won't let me do it either unless I disable - the same as you are describing.What you could try doing is setting up a network bridge with the two adapters and since it is the bridge which will request the IP address (through whichever adapter is connected) you should get the results you are looking for. But, note that the bridge will use it's own (generated) MAC address and your DHCP serrver would need to be changed to accomodate that address.
On Jan 29, 5:32 am, paulmitchell507 <[email protected]> wrote: > Domain: Active Directory > Server: Microsoft Windows Server 2003 DHCP > Clients: Windows Vista and Windows 7 > Hardware: Dell laptops > > I have both wired and wireless acceess to my office LAN. I have 1x > DHCP server distributing IP's based on MAC address to the wired (via > ethernet) clients and a seperate DHCP providing IP's to wireless > clients. Under XP, I could researve the same IP address for the > client on both DHCP's (via MAC address) and the client just had to > remove the network cable before connecting to the wireless LAN in > order to pick up the same address on the wireless LAN. > > Under Vista and Windows 7, the only way to continue this procedure is > to disable the ethernet port on the laptop before moving to the > wireless network, and then repeat the procedure when moving back to > the ethernet LAN. > > According to the logs, the DHCP server is assigning/renewing the IP > address but the client is refusing to accept the IP. I think that > when the client removes the network cable, Vista/Win7 believes the IP > is still active, so will not allow the same IP to be assigned to the > wireless NIC. If I assign a seperate internal IP on the wireless DHCP > it works fine, so the problem is with the single IP being assigned to > 2 NIC's. > > Could anyone offer any advise? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Computer Tech Support" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en.
