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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 21:12:15 +0100
From: Raphael <raphael AT oninet DOT pt>
To: John Vincent <jpv50 AT hotmail DOT com>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: can CYGWIN have a different IP address to Windows?
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On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, John Vincent wrote:

> Although the answer to the question was NO. The much more interesting
> question was "can I assign more than one IP address to my laptop?"

No that was definetly not the question.

> and the answer to that is YES. Then different servers can serve
> on different IP addresses, cygwin-based or otherwise.

If that would be the question then your answer would be right. The little
critter even has a name, multi-ip hosting. Usualy aplied by the use of
multiple nicīs

> 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 ?

No it applies to *nix aswell.

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