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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 07:29:03 +0100
From: Raphael <raphael AT oninet DOT pt>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: can CYGWIN have a different IP address to Windows?
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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.
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