I started carrying the Mikrokik mAP. Set up the wireless to DHCP an address to my laptop in a subnet range we never use on our network and add outside addresses for all the common subnets you’d normally plug your laptop into. The mAP plugs into USB for power so you only need the ethernet cable to plug into your network with. Works pretty well, just need to get all the outside IPs on one time. Also means your laptop doesn’t have to be within ethernet cord distance of the device you want to plug in to if you have USB or POE for the mAP to plug into. This is nice on top of grain legs, where plug the mAP into the cabinet and fine a comfortable place to perch up top to work on the laptop rather than being pinched in a corner by the cabinet.
Regards, David Coudron From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 10:25 AM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] a basic question I feel silly asking this but I honestly don’t know if there is a better way. Willing to risk the embarrassment of a simple answer. Frequently plugging a laptop into a management port or something. 192.168.1.1 So I need to set the laptop IP manually to 192.168.1.11 or some such thing. Then I find I immediately need to connect to some DHCP device and right back to the management port. And then to perhaps check email I need to go to a 10.x.x.x or a 172 subnet internally. Once upon a time I wrote some scripts and associated them with icons to reconfig the ethernet IPV4 settings to various things I need to access from time to time. Is there a better way where I will never have to change configs?
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