Two connections

[Mike S]

Outlook 2007, Windows XP

I have a wired lan and a wireless lan. The exchange server is accessed
through the wireless but it seems that connection availability is lan (wired)
or dial-up. Is there a way to force Outlook to use the wireless connection
without disabling the wired connection when I want to check my email?

TIA

 

[Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I]]

You might be able to do this by creating a route through the wireless
network with the Route Add command. The syntax is:

route add <destination> <mask> <gateway> <metric>

Which translates to:

"If you encounter packets for the subnet defined by <destination> and
<mask>, then route them to the <gateway> address. The destination is
<metric> hops away from here."

This KB article may help explain things:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q140/8/59.asp
TCP/IP Routing Basics for Windows NT

Hal
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