Single NIC, Multiple IP Addresses

[Guest]

I'm on a Novell network with multiple LAN's consisting of 5 different
offices. Is there a way to setup a laptop running Win2k Pro so I don't have
to change the IP address and gateway every time I go to another office? All
the offices are using the same subnet.

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

You can assign multiple IP addresses and gateways to an adapter in Win2k.
However, the results you get in this scenario will be unpredictable, and is
not likely to solve your problem, especially where all offices use the same
subnet. You would be better off creating 5 shortcuts with a script that
makes the appropriate changes for each network, eg:

netsh interface ip set address "Local Area Connection" static 192.168.0.10
255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1 1

Also, there are 3rd party products which may be able to provide you with an
easy interface to accomplish this, eg: http://www.netswitcher.com/

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

 

[Phillip Windell]

DHCP.

Set the laptop to Automatic addressing.

Or use Netswitcher (www.netswitcher.com)