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: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 07:29:03 +0100 From: Raphael To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: can CYGWIN have a different IP address to Windows? In-Reply-To: <005c01c24250$2ec8e590$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Max Bowsher wrote: > Joel Hughes wrote: > > Hi, > > I have CYGWIN installed on my Win2K server laptop. > > > > Can I assign CYGWIN a different IP address to that of my laptop? > > Cygwin != VMware, or anything like that. > > So, really, your question is more or less equivalent to 'Can I assign Internet > Explorer and Outlook Express different IP addresses when they run on the same > computer?' > So realy, your answer should have been: IP adresses are asigned to hardware for identification purposes (fi network cards, modems etc) it is not possible to assign ip addresses to software. - -- Ask Not for whom the Bell Tolls, and You will Pay only the Station-to-Station rate. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (Cygwin32) iD8DBQE9Wfi1WEtPuWPcngsRAsUcAJ9Mc0oBIUKiXx2P3N6hQ+4GeBxoeQCfUZH2 d58TzvNx8QInjvOn3LzMIQE= =lvUF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/