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XP only asks for a reboot when I deactivate swsvpkt from my 3Com 3C920.

It seems that the Watt-32 apps try to use the first connection that was
used previously. Here is a scenario:

I go to the office and attach the ethernet cable but cannot watt-32
ping network addresses until I deactivate swsvpkt from the wireless.
But I still have to reboot before watt-32 apps start to work.
Then I move to anothjer location with no ethernet but Wifi. Watt-32
stops working again. I now disable swsvpkt from the ethernet. At that
moment XP consistently says it requires a reboot. I activate swsvpkt on
the wireless, but Watt-32 will not work again until anotther reboot.
Then I move back to the office and go through the whole thing again.

Watt-32 is not storing any access_type setting, so the reason that the
connection seems to 'default' to the first prior available swsvpkt
interface must be somewhere in the NDIS registry.

The rebooting is very inconvienient. Is it possible to request an
enhancement, that the DOS stub have such command line options to 1)
list available interfaces or 2) switch swsvpkt to use a specific
interface globally; i.e for all DOS apps run thereafter in the cmd.exe
session (similar to ndis3pkt stub)??