> I usually dial-up to my ISP and get an assigned IP address for the session. > I am thinking of connecting my ethernet card to a network, so I might have > two connections at once. > > My understanding is that the IP address comes from the ethernet card > (hmm... but then it couldn't be assigned in a local network, so probably > this is wrong..). At any rate, is there a problem with the machine doing > both networks at once? > well, you can also configure multiple IPs for one NIC (see one of the previous post). a dialup connection will have it's IP, too. and: you can even set up dummy-devices with an own IP. there would be absolutely no problem with your config.
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