Re: Risks of File Transfer on a Fully Switched Network

[Gary Dobbins <dobbins () ND EDU>]

You may be able to address that by increasing the baseline route-cost field
in the properties of the wireless connection.  When both datalinks are
live, your route table will naturally favor the wired interface.

Or, using there's always the various ways to disable the WLAN connection,
including letting XP do it automatically when the machine's docking-state
changes.


Cal Frye wrote:
> I've observed that on my own system, a TabletPC from Motion Computing running
> the Tablet version of Windows XP, that the wireless connection is preferred. If
> I have both connections active, the (faster!) wired connection loafs while most
> traffic goes wireless. I haven't found a place to change this behaviour, but I
> haven't looked too deeply, either. But it bears strongly on this discussion, I
> think.
>
> --Cal Frye, Network Administrator, Oberlin College
>    www.calfrye.com, www.pitalabs.com, www.ouuf.org
>
>   "`Business!' cried the Ghost [Jacob Marley], wringing its hands again.
> `Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy,
> forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade
> were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!'"  --
> Charles Dickens.
>
>
> jack suess wrote:
>
> > My own sense is that as wireless becomes more and more widespread on
> > campus the idea of saying you would allow ftp on an intranet  "wired"
> > connection but not allow ftp on wireless or extranet connection becomes
> > a helpdesk nightmare. My application worked but then it didn't.

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