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To: Howard R. Hansen who wrote (9389)	11/23/1999 12:53:00 PM
From: Clark Wang	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Win2k can do exactly what you want without rebooting.

To: Howard R. Hansen who wrote (9389)	11/25/1999 12:10:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Well, Clark is telling us that Win 2k will do this for you. I'm glad to know that, but till it really comes out I'm not much for going to it. Speaking of current NT (and I can't speak for 95/98), it would depend on the setup from each provider. If both providers assigned fixed IP addresses you can assign two IP addresses to the same NIC and plug the providers through a hub. To switch providers, you'd have to modify the IP routing table, but that can be done without rebooting. You'd also have might have to play DNS games with the IP configuration (include DNS sites from both sources, that is, because switching DNS addresses does require a reboot). If one or the other (or both) use DHCP, you'd need to NICs as you suggest to avoid a reboot, but you'd still have to change the default gateway in the routing table when you wanted to switch providers. The routing table changes are very straightforward, incidentally. Typically a one-line DOS command to change the IP address of the default gateway. No doubt this is why Win2k can do it (not too hard for Microsoft <gg>), which I am delighted to hear. Spots