Have a look at AirDefense.

http://www.airdefense.net/products/adpersonal/

 

One of the threats detected is wireless on and wired on and I heard it would 
switch off wireless if this were the case.

 

Hth

René

 

From: mck1012 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 4:27 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Disable Wirless if Ethernet has a connection

 

 

Hardware profiles will not work either because you need to reboot in order to 
switch. We are looking for something that will enable to wireless adapter when 
the ethernet does not have a connection without the user having to reboot.

----- Original Message ----
From: Miller Bonnie L. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:08:56 AM
Subject: RE: Disable Wirless if Ethernet has a connection

Hardware profiles might do what you want with minor user intervention.   In XP, 
it's in control panel, system, Hardware tab, click on the Hardware profiles 
button.  Just an FYI, from what I can google right now (this is the first I've 
looked into it), this appears to be going away with Vista.  What I'm reading 
says it's no longer supported (for hardware), but it appears to be available in 
the services area.

What we usually do for systems where this is important is to create a "Wired" 
and "Wireless" profile.  In the "Wired" profile, you disable the Wireless NIC 
via device manager and in the "Wireless" profile, you disable the Wired NIC.  
Set the more commonly used configuration as the default and the user has to 
reboot the box to bring the other one online.

-Bonnie

-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Dickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 9:20 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Disable Wirless if Ethernet has a connection

That works wonderfully, however the Wireless is still open and if you do
not have it properly secured someone can attach to it wirelessly and try
to Hack in that way.  I would like to see if there is a way to do this
also for our wireless users.



-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 7:52 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Disable Wirless if Ethernet has a connection

I have never been able to find a GPO or app that will do this.
However you can set the weight on your network adapters.  Set a lower
value on the Wired NIC and a higher value on the Wireless NIC that way
the pc will always choose the Wired NIC if both have a connection.

Network Connections --> LAN Connection --> TCPIP --> Advanced -->
Uncheck Automatic Metric and put in an Interface Metric.  Lower gets
more weight.

Matt


On Jan 17, 2008 8:04 AM, mck1012 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Is there a way through a GPO or any 3rd party apps that will do this
without
> the user doing anything.
>
>

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