multiple IP address?

[cgtran]

Ok is there a way I can setup my computer to have multiple ip address?
If it does how, and can I make it so that when I boot it will have 2 ip address that I can switch around with.

 

[obenton]

Depends. What is it you want to do?

 

[cgtran]

I have a broadband connection, sometimes my computer is the server if it's the first to come on, the other times, it's going through a proxy. So I wonder if there's a way to change the IP automatically before I log onto windows like the Hardware profiles. Or if multiple ip addresses is possible then I can put both proxy ip and real ip in so I don't have to change the ip and reboot to get a different ip, if you know what I mean.

 

[sohcrates]

if you run win2k you won't have to reboot in order to change your ip address...

 

[obenton]

How you would do it depends on your hardware setup and the configuration requirements of your sharing software. It's also a default gateway issue. I used to have this sort of setup with mine and my wife's computers using NAT32 as the sharing software - the first computer to connect would share the connection with the late-comer, with no tcp/ip reconfiguration required. It was possible with NAT32 because the LAN NICs could have static IP addresses in the 192.168.0.X private range, and NAT32's virtual IP address could be different on each computer (eg. 192.168.0.100 on one, and 192.168.0.101 on the other), with each computer's LAN NIC's gateway set at the NAT32 virtual IP address of the other computer, with the same settings working for either server and client roles. Other NAT software might not be as flexible.