Two ip addresses?

[Sam]

I have two XP machines connected via a wireless access
point w 4/ port switch. Both have one network card
installed on their machine. The network is working fine,
no problems at all. I just bought a second network card
for PC 1.

What I would like to do is install the second network
card in PC1 so that it will have two ip addresses. This
way PC2 could have two different ip addresses to connect
to computer 1. PC2 won't have a second network card
installed.

In other words, PC2 can access the other computer and
connect with either using the ip address 192.168.1.2 or
172.16.x.y.

Will this work?

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

I have two XP machines connected via a wireless access
point w 4/ port switch. Both have one network card
installed on their machine. The network is working fine,
no problems at all. I just bought a second network card
for PC 1.

What I would like to do is install the second network
card in PC1 so that it will have two ip addresses. This
way PC2 could have two different ip addresses to connect
to computer 1. PC2 won't have a second network card
installed.

In other words, PC2 can access the other computer and
connect with either using the ip address 192.168.1.2 or
172.16.x.y.

Will this work?

If you assign two static IP addresses to PC2's network card
(192.168.1.x and 172.16.x.y), it will be able to access PC1 using
either of PC1's network cards.

Accessing PC2 using its computer name (\\PC1) or My Network Places
will use one network adapter or the other, but not both. Accessing
PC2 using one of its IP addresses (e.g. \\192.168.1.2) will use the
network adapter that has that IP address.
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[Sam]

That seems much more of a headache to me. I was hoping to
use DHCP. If I install a second network card, I was
hoping that it could assign 169.x.x.x. I don't care about
Internet on the new second adapter.

Maybe I'll just disable the one network card in Device
Manager. This way I can install the other and switch back
and forth.

Any problems there?

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