2 ips on one pc?

**Guardian12** · October 26th, 2003, 01:00 PM

Is their a way to get 2 diff ips on one pc?

**Scott Tiger** · October 26th, 2003, 01:01 PM

Use two nics?

**Sixpac_XP** · October 26th, 2003, 01:02 PM

or give the card a static IP and then you can add a second I.P.

**Scott Tiger** · October 26th, 2003, 01:06 PM

That's an XP only option isn't it Sixpac_XP?

What OS are you using Guardian12?

**Sixpac_XP** · October 26th, 2003, 01:09 PM

No.. you can do it in NT 4, 2000 and XP...and of course 2003

**Guardian12** · October 26th, 2003, 01:18 PM

i use xp pro, im alittle dumb i need alittle bit more in depth explanation as to how i would go aboput doign this if u can plz.

**Sixpac_XP** · October 26th, 2003, 01:19 PM

Frist.. what are you trying to accomplish?

**Guardian12** · October 26th, 2003, 01:20 PM

what ami trying to accomplish. Well its complicated. I play in an online game called tfc. But an order to play in 2 diff leagues i need 2 ips or its illegal.

**Sixpac_XP** · October 26th, 2003, 01:23 PM

Oh.. in that case.. you will need two physical network cards in your computer, but I doubt your ISP will give you two IP's on your account, many don't. I also wouldn't directly connect your computer to the internet.

**Gait_Keeper** · October 26th, 2003, 01:37 PM

I'm not sure about this, but here's my try............

I have DSL and a 4 port router (verizon)

My mother happens to live down stairs from me, so I drilled a hole in the My floor/her ceiling to run a cat5e cable to her machine, so she can have FREE internet, and get rid of that virus called AOL

But she liked AOL a lot as she's old and don't like change, so she continued to pay for and use AOL, along with the banwidth I gave her, 2 IPs??

I believe when she logs on to AOL they assign her an IP, and when she just opens IE and uses my connection she has the IP I assigned her NIC 2IP's???????????

**Scott Tiger** · October 26th, 2003, 01:48 PM

You're giving her that IP with your router Gait_Keeper - not your ISP.

If you mother is dialing into AOL with a Modem then she is getting another IP address - but that's no surprise there since that modem is working as a seperate network adapter. It has to pick up a different IP for it to work.

What Sixpac was taking about was connecting the computer directly to the internet. How you could do with without two cable modems or a hub though is beyond me.

**Gait_Keeper** · October 26th, 2003, 02:03 PM

So the Ip that verizon assigns me that I plug into the router, which has it's own IP, and all my machines have diferent ips, the only one that caunts is the one given by verizon, right?

I'm just rying to see where I went wrong.

I think I have it, not the answer , but where i went wrong

I have since made her cancel AOL, there's no scine in paying for something you can have for free and much faster!!!!!!

**Scott Tiger** · October 26th, 2003, 02:09 PM

Yep, that's right. Verizon gives you one IP and the router takes it. It (router) in turn then gives all the computers on your network different IPs. The typical numbering is 192.168.xxx.xxx.

You can get two IPs from you ISP but they usually charge you $5 or so a month for the second one. The only way I know to distribute the second IP is to plug the Cat5 cable coming from the Cable Modem into the uplink port of an unmanaged hub. Then plug your two PCs into the hub. Or in the case of what I used to have when I lived with a roommate who needed his own IP, plug on computer directly into the hub (no protection that way but that's the way he wanted it) and plug the your router into the other port of the hub (so that way I could run multiple computers off of one IP).

HTH's.