Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 07:57:19 +0200 (MEST) From: "S. L." To: "John Vincent" Cc: raphael@oninet.pt, cygwin@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Subject: Re: can CYGWIN have a different IP address to Windows? X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Authenticated-Sender: #0006551723@gmx.net X-Authenticated-IP: [194.102.244.61] Message-ID: <6780.1029391039@www21.gmx.net> X-Flags: 0001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit John, [...] > I think this answer only applies to WinNT/2000/XP. Out of interest, > does anyone know if the same trick can be done on Win9x ? [...] Just a "spread the word" (I've not actually tested). There can be more than 2 IP addresses on a Win9x box, adding more TCP/IP protocols. This is a win98 hint (dunno if it applies to 95 and/or OSR2). Problems that arrive with this are: 1. You cannot control what network device the added protocol associates with. I. e., if you have more than 1 network device (dial-up, VPN, etc.), you must add protocols until you get one associated with desired network device, and delete those unwanted. 2. Win9x stack is incomplete (most noticeable, it doesn't route), so other problems may also appear. SLao -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/