Re: multiple different tcp/ip settings

["Alan Sukiennik" <alans@voicenet.com>]

You have to bind IP separately to each adapter with the appropriate
settings, such as hostname, DNS, gateway, e.t.c.

-=alan=-

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> From: Friedemann Baitinger <baiti@herrenberg.netsurf.de>
> To: ThinkPad Mailing-List <thinkpad@cs.utk.edu>
> Subject: multiple different tcp/ip settings
> Date: Thursday, September 05, 1996 6:42 PM
> 
> hi there,
> i'm new to the thinkpad world. until now i always had a pc directly 
> attached to some network. no i am in the situation that i want to 
> connect the TP to a Token Ring network at work and to an Ethernet
> network at home and probably to the internet via Dialup Adapter from
> some place around the world.
> 
> I'm running win95 for that purpose (linux for other purposes), defining
> the connections is relatively easy to do, however, i noticed that i
> can only define one set of TCP/IP settings such as:
> 
>   - hostname
>   - domain 
>   - gateway
> 
> to me it would make a lot more sense if these data would be specific
> to a given connection such as T/R, E'net, Dialup ...
> 
> does anybody know a way how to achieve this? (This must be a FAQ! I 
> apologize in advance but i really haven't been in this situation until
> recently).
> 
> thanks for your help.
> 
> -- 
> Friedemann Baitinger           baiti@herrenberg.netsurf.de