You can have as many alternate ip addresses as you like with windows. Just add them all.
Regards, Wil McGilvery Manager Lynch Digital Media Inc 416-744-7949 416-716-3964 (cell) 1-866-314-4678 416-744-0406 FAX www.LynchDigital.com -----Original Message----- From: Tim Wunder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 8:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: One reason why I should have a Linux laptop On Wednesday 19 November 2003 7:08 pm, someone claiming to be James McDonald wrote: > Folks, > > For those of you in an admin role you may sympathize with this. I just > had to change the IP addresses on a series of radios linking the sites > of the company I work at. > > Because we only have windows I had to take a laptop up to the radio > repeater site and use it to change each ip address. The problem was that > windows (w2k) will allow you to change your ip address once but if you > try it again it prompts for a reboot.... So in short each time I had to Can't you just tell it that no, you don't want to reboot? Haven't done it in a while, but I seem to remember that you don't really have to reboot, it's just that Winders wants you to. -- Fedora Core 1, Kernel 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl, KDE 3.1.4, Xfree86 4.3.0 20:35:00 up 10 days, 3:00, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 It's what you learn after you know it all that counts _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users