From: "Paul Ranson" 

Surely DHCP is the obvious (and usual) way to handle this? Even if most of
the machines are hard wired you can run a DHCP server for the few that
roam.

Paul

"Randall Parker"
 wrote in
message news:4001fab6$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> How to make XP maintain multiple different sets of TCP/IP settings for
different
> networks that one plugs the same laptop into at different times? Each time
it is
> plugging in via ethernet. But since the gateway machines are at different
IP
> addresses each time it goes to one of a few places we have to change the
default
> gateway.
>
> Some way to avoid that?
>
> It'd be nice to have those settings and the DNS ip address settings to be
changeable
> together between different saved named configurations.
>
> Am I missing some obvious correct simple way to do that?
>
> Ditto for file sharing btw. The workgroup name is different at different
sites. Can
> one belong to multiple domain names? There's no master computer passing
out info at
> any of these sites.
>

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