I have a macbook at a workplace. I need to access one set of resources via an ethernet cable, another set of resources via airport. In order to access one or the other, I either unplug the ethernet or switch off the wifi. Is there a way I can keep both connections alive and map out which resources are to be found at which connection?
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
Here's what I have to do:
I am more or less the only Macintosh in my work place of nearly two hundred thousand PCs, so tech support is not exactly strong.
You can keep both connections active at the same time, however accessing resources on each connection has less to do with the Mac, and more to do with each connection's settings.
Technically if each connection is setup in a different IP address range, The Mac will automatically use the connection that matches the IP setting of the resource you wish to access.
If they are both mapped to identical ranges ie 192.168.1.x Then there's no way to know where the resource actually resides to send a request to it.
How are your networks configured? In other words What do the IP settings of the ethernet port and the Wifi Airport look like?
You don't need to know the specific IPs of the resources.
When you connect to the Ethernet network what network Info do you get for the connection? IP address, gateway, subnet etc...
You can find this easily through the Network utility. You can use Spotlight to find it.
Then do the same for the Wifi connection.
Whatever the Website does when you open it, is unrelated to the connections on your computer. Its also not necessarry to know the website's IP address.
Do both connections have internet access? I.e can you browse the web regardless of what you are connected to? Or is there internet only through one?
Your problem is software. Here is one way I get around it. It may be suitable for you.
Use Parallels.
Presently I have Yosemite as my main OS.
Presently I have Windows7 in a virtual environment.
They have different IP addresses.
I know they are using a different resource as my main OS uses my crappy terrestrial 2MB broadband connection which I can see with Speedtest.netat the same time as the virtual machine will use Speedtest.net also on the, (up to), 70MB 4G connection provided by my tethered mobile.
ok: now I'm tracking. Don't know why I couldn't find network util.
On the USB->Ethernet Connection, I see an IP address 10.1.15.60
on the Wifi I see an IP address of 172.29.248.134
both connections can see the internet, though the ethernet one is firewalled so I can't see some things I need, Dropbox for instance
The ethernet one sees stuff specific to my work, the wifi does not (e.g. the shares on our windows network, or the offsite web service that maps back to my place of work)
does this clarify?
They actually give me a PC but I'd rather not use it. It's collecting dust mostly; I could go with parallels, but that's hardly a big step up from switching my wifi on & off or plugging or unplugging the usb cable.
So they are on different subnets. 10, and 172. The samba shares should be accessible directly without needing to do anything, since they would be on the specific 10 subnet.
The Website may be a different deal. What happens when you try to access the website with both connections active?
[sorry for the delay: don't have time a lot at work to hammer this out, and then the holidays]
basically, if I have both the ethernet and wifi connections active, if try to connect to the "internal" resources (INTRAnet, samba shares, the off-site website that maps back to us at work), the attempts time out.
If I have only the wifi and not the ethernet, the same holds.
If I have the ethernet only, i'm pretty set except that some things on the wider internet are inaccessible (e.g. dropbox)
can I connect my mac to two separate networks at once
