Why not install an additional dial-up adapter and assign a fixed IP address to it? It's been a long time since I've worked with Windows 9x, so I can not recall if the OS can do multiple dial-up adapters.
-Jeff At 08:14 PM 08/17/2002 -0400, Doug Scott wrote: >Sorry, just realized ms loopback was only on NT. You are stuck with >adding a NIC to your machine to have TCP bound to something at all >times. NIC does not need to work, it just needs to be able to be >loaded. Speed does not matter either. Any old nic will do (even an old >token ring would work.) > >BTW, in the simplest (at the expense of complete correctness) way, tcp >is the network protocol that is responible for the "localhost" >connection you are trying to accomplish. > >The web server provides the pages on tcp port 80. > >If you do not have the protocol installed (ie no network adaptor (NIC), >or dial up adaptor that has an IP address (ie you have logged into your >isp and received an ip address via dhcp), there is no port 80. In >addition to that, there is no localhost without tcp because localhost is >nothing more than a local loopback connection at ip address 127.0.0.1. >Without an adaptor of some kind (either dial up or nic) then no protocol >is available at all. > >If your isp will give you a static address, then you could enter that in >your dial up adaptor settings and that would work. > >If they do not give you a static address, then you cannot put an address >in there. Because it is Win98, you have to restart the machine every >time you make changes to the network settings so it is not viable to >change the dial up adaptor every time. > >Also, Win98 shares the dial up settings amoungst all the dial up >adaptors, so adding another one in and setting it to static ip would not >work. > > >Doug > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf >Of gordon Stewart >Sent: August 17, 2002 7:05 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [sambar] Localhost... {04} > > >At 18:29 17/08/02 -0400, you wrote: > > >I think the proper way is to set your connection option in Internet > >Settings to something like dial only when needed. If you only have one > > >machine and no network card, it may decide that localhost (127.0.0.1) > >does not exist and therefore dials out. Localhost was not intended for > >no network, it was intended for local use only, but still requires TCP > >to be present. Without a NIC, no TCP is present. Adding a NIC and > >binding TCP to it would get around it for sure though. > > > >doug > >How do I do that ? - im no techie... in regards to whaT TCP is etc... > >G. > >------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe please go to http://www.sambar.ch/list/ > > >--- >Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.381 / Virus Database: 214 - Release Date: 02/08/2002 > > >--- >Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.381 / Virus Database: 214 - Release Date: 02/08/2002 > >------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe please go to http://www.sambar.ch/list/ ------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe please go to http://www.sambar.ch/list/
