deactivate wireless connection when LAN connection?

22 Dec 2006 8:41 AM

Franz Schenk

Have a problem on a customer site with a lot of Centrino Notebooks: Have
configured WLL over GPO's (WPA with certificates). There is only the driver
for the Wireless Card installed, no additional Software. The customer uses
DNS reverse resolution for remote support and host printing.

The problem is that when these notebooks are connected to the LAN over the
onboard Ethernet NIC, the WLL connection is active as well and the notebooks
have two active NIC's with two IP addresses as well, and problems with DNS
reverse lookup arise.

Does anyone knows a tool or a script that can automatically deactivate the
wireless connection when a wired Ethernet connection is established?

Thank you all in advance for any feedback!
Franz

22 Dec 2006 7:03 PM

Jack (MVP-Networking).

Hi
Did you try to establish priority by Metrics.
http://www.ezlan.net/metrics.html
Jack (MVP-Networking).

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"Franz Schenk" <franz.schenkNOSPAM@fititNO-_SPAM.ch> wrote in message
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> Have a problem on a customer site with a lot of Centrino Notebooks: Have
> configured WLL over GPO's (WPA with certificates). There is only the
> driver for the Wireless Card installed, no additional Software. The
> customer uses DNS reverse resolution for remote support and host printing.
>
> The problem is that when these notebooks are connected to the LAN over the
> onboard Ethernet NIC, the WLL connection is active as well and the
> notebooks have two active NIC's with two IP addresses as well, and
> problems with DNS reverse lookup arise.
>
> Does anyone knows a tool or a script that can automatically deactivate the
> wireless connection when a wired Ethernet connection is established?
>
> Thank you all in advance for any feedback!
> Franz
>

24 Dec 2006 9:21 PM

Pavel A.

"Franz Schenk" wrote:
> Have a problem on a customer site with a lot of Centrino Notebooks: Have
> configured WLL over GPO's (WPA with certificates). There is only the driver
> for the Wireless Card installed, no additional Software. The customer uses
> DNS reverse resolution for remote support and host printing.
>
> The problem is that when these notebooks are connected to the LAN over the
> onboard Ethernet NIC, the WLL connection is active as well and the notebooks
> have two active NIC's with two IP addresses as well, and problems with DNS
> reverse lookup arise.
>
> Does anyone knows a tool or a script that can automatically deactivate the
> wireless connection when a wired Ethernet connection is established?

The new Lenovo "Access Connections" software has this feature.
It can automatically turn wi-fi off when a LAN connection is detected.
Not sure it will run on non-Lenovo PCs though.

Regards,
--PA