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I read at  www.timhiggins.com that assigning multipul ip addresses to your
NIC that you're using for your cable modem can cause many problems with
others on your subnet and result in a lot of packet loss potentially getting
yourself in trouble.  Makes me wonder if that is why I hear of a lot of
people complaining about packet loss while playing Quake 2 and such.
Perhaps other people are playing with multipul IPs on a single NIC creating
the PL.   For the extra $10-$15 it costs to use a second NIC I believe it is
worth it.

just my $0.02 worth....

Kevin

Wayne <mid1@netzero.net> wrote in message
news:XA283.32659$tm6.20019@news.rdc1.sdca.home.com...
>    Ya know, there seems to be a lot of misconceptions, or just confusion,
> about Windows 95/98 and TCP/IP protocols or stacks.  I agree using
programs
> like the new 98-SE with ICS via NAT, you must have two network devices
> installed on your computer.  One for your internet connection, and one for
> your home network.
>    However, if you utilize programs which provide PROXY services, like
> Wingate or Winproxy, you only need to have one network device for Cable
> Modem users.
>    Here is another solution instead of utilizing two NIC cards in a
machine
> eating up all those valuable IRQ resources and PCI/ISA slots.  With a
Proxy
> Server like WINGATE running for Cable Modem and DSL users, you can, under
> Win95/98, add multiple TCP/IP protocols (or stacks) to the NIC adapters
> installed on the machine.  I have been able to assign, and bind, up to 4
IP
> addresses to a single NIC installed in Win95 and up to 6 IP's on Win98
> machines.  This assumes you don't have any other network adapters, like
DUN
> or VPN,  installed.  Since Microsoft has limited the total number of
TCP/IP
> protocols to 4 under Win95 and 6 under Win98, you simply go to Network
> Properties and ADD PROTOCOL, select MICROSOFT and TCP/IP and it will load
an
> "additional" TCP/IP protocol to each installed network adapter (remember
if
> you have stuff like DUN or VPN adapters loaded, you are still limited to a
> total number of TCP/IP protocols between all the installed adapters
Win95=4,
> Win98=6).  Then you simply assign the proper IP addresses to each TCP/IP
> protocol on your NIC.  One for your internet connection 24.x.x.x(or simply
> use @HOMES DHCP services), and assign the other TCP/IP NIC protocol for
your
> private network 192.0.0.1/255.255.255.0.  Works for me!
>
>