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WiFi and ethernet

  • 19-02-2019 09:49PM
    #1
    Lu Tze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,524 ✭✭✭


    Odd query, but just wondering if it's possible to connect to two separate networks, a local network (no internet) over ethernet and to a WiFi connection for internet simultaneously?
    It's a friend iMac, I'm guessing from around 2010.


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  • #2
    ZENER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,167 ✭✭✭ZENER


    It is indeed, I do this regularly. Just configure the 2 interfaces as normal. Just not that it's not a good idea to use two different Gateway addresses. Only provide the gateway address on the outward facing connection - the one connecting to the Internet. The local connection shouldn't need a gateway address.

    For my set up I use the WiFi to connect to the internet on a 192. network. My Ethernet port connects to a VMWare Host on a 10. network.

    Ken


  • #3
    Lu Tze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,524 ✭✭✭Lu Tze


    ZENER wrote: »
    It is indeed, I do this regularly. Just configure the 2 interfaces as normal. Just not that it's not a good idea to use two different Gateway addresses. Only provide the gateway address on the outward facing connection - the one connecting to the Internet. The local connection shouldn't need a gateway address.

    For my set up I use the WiFi to connect to the internet on a 192. network. My Ethernet port connects to a VMWare Host on a 10. network.

    Ken
    Cheers, want to setup TV streaming for him as he won't be getting a TV for a while. Have the box that will allow terrestrial and satellite streaming from it in a web browser, but his only broadband is 4g at the moment so a normal router wouldn't integrate the two. I may still go down the route of a 4g home router to make thing simpler, but a bit a jump in cost!


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