Re: [FW-1] 2 external IP's

[Russell Washington]

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Not clear on what you're trying to accomplish but it sounds like your hope is to have zero downtime (literally).   Won't work.  First, if you jiggle the IP addresses on an NT box, you're going to have to reboot the box, so you're going to have at least *some* downtime.  Second, even if you could get 2 IPs on the external NIC (see Alexey's post for the "why not" on this), you'd have routing issues to contend with.   As far as stopping the service, locate a copy of "kill.exe" from the NT resource kit.  That'll stop it cold, but since it's being a royal pain already I hope you can restart it afterwards :)   Good luck. -----Original Message----- From: Fiorenza, Rosa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 6:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FW-1] 2 external IP's Hi, I have a big problem. We work with Checkpoint 4.0 on WinNT (we haven't upgrade the fw because we don't have a backup and we cannot stop the service...) and now we have to change our "transport provider" (I don't know if it's the right name). So we have to change lines, router and public IP addresses, but we don't know how to manage the transition period, while both providers are working (... we can't stop the service ....), waiting for the complete passage to the new "transport provider". We were thinking about setting 2 external IP addresses to the Network Adapter. Does it work? And, if answer is YES, how can we configure it? Thanks in advance Rosa