Network question: Bluetooth PAN & Ethernet cable

LandyMan

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Afternoon all,

I have a question around networking, and which connection will be used to establish an internet connection:

On WinXP, when you are connected to a LAN (ethernet or wireless) and you dial-up via whichever means (phone line, bluetooth phone, whatever) the system uses the newly created dial-up connection to the internet, even though the Wireless/ethernet LAN is still connected.

Now the same is not happening on my MBP. We are having internet issues at the office, so I want to run the internet connection via Bluetooth PAN (connected to my TyTN), but still keep the local LAN connection via the ethernet port to access local (LAN) resources. As long as the ethernet cable is connected, the connection to my TyTN means nothing ... as soon as I disconnected the ethernet cable, I can access the internet (but I obviously loose my LAN resources).

Any ideas/guidelines here guys/girls?

Thanks
 
Update: Got it sorted:

In Network preferences, get the dropdown next to "Show". Go to the bottom and select "Network Port configurations". Drag "Bluetooth PAN" to above the Ethernet/Airport configuration ... works like a charm
 
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