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Detecting static IP

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#1 ·
I have two wired networks that I need to connect to athe separt times often switching back and forth. Each has a static IP.

First network is
IP: 10.0.58.27
SUBNET MASK: 255.255.255.255
Default gateway: 10.0.58.345

DNS
Preferred: 10.0.58.9
Alternate: 10.0.67.4

Second network is
IP: 10.0.47.25
SUBNET MASK: 255.255.255.255
Default gateway: 10.0.47.678

DNS
Preferred 10.0.47.7
Alternate 10.0.67.4

When I take out one wire and plug in the other I have to manually input the IP info for that network to connect to it.

How can I make it so it automatically detects it? Sometimes I have to frequently switch back and forth and constantly changing that sucks.

Also I like to use WiFi when neither are plugged in. When I have "obtain IP address automatically" it doesn't work for the two wired networks but works for the wifi.

Do I have to somehow organize them in the advanced tcp/IP setting menu?

Thanks
 
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#2 ·
First thing is your Subnet Mask, and your Default Gateways are setup wrong.
IP addresses end at .254 and your Subnet Mask has no hosts (no usable IP's to join that network).

For example, if you change the 10.0.58.27 Subnet Mask to 255.255.255.0
your 10.0.58.27 network would have 254 host IP's available, the network host range would be from 10.0.58.1 to 10.0.58.254

The most common default gateway IP's are .1 or .254

If you can explain what you are trying to achieve, it would help a lot.
 
#6 ·
Given the invalid gateways and subnet masks I have to assume the poster doesn't know tcp/ip addressing.

Doesn't appear there are dhcp servers on these two subnets or that would be the way to go.

Alternatively you can set your subnet mask to 225.225.224.0 which will give you a accessible range of 10.0.32.0 - 10.0.63.255 of which both the x.x.47.x and x.x58.x are contained within.

Set this once and just switch ports when needed
IP: 10.0.58.27
SUBNET MASK: 225.225.224.0
Default gateway: 10.0.58.? <- get the correct gateway
DNS preferred: 10.0.58.9

Even given this supernet subnet mask the dns server at 10.0.67.4 would never be reachable.
 
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