I have played some more with my test machine here. You can only have one dial up adaptor in Win98 (only one will appear in the network settings, you can have 20 on the machine, but only one gets listed).
You can however have multiple connections, each with unique settings. Problem is, the connections settings only take effect after they have connected. Settings made on the adaptor in the Network Properties form will take precedence over individual settings (ie adaptor is global and god, individual connection settings are specific numbers and are only used if the adaptor is set to dynamic numbers). You may be able to find a third party local loopback adaptor (which is really nothing more than a NIC emulator) though. I have found many listings for how to set up various software packages under NT using the MS Loopback adaptor, so they must do something for the Win9x people since MS doesn't. Try searching with Google for MS Loopback, and then look in those hits for info on Win9x systems. doug -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jeff Adams Sent: August 17, 2002 8:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [sambar] Localhost... {06} 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/ --- 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/
