I am currently using DHCP on both OS's and it works well.
I just thought that using vmware may be easier than having to
reboot into the other OS each time.
Gordon Pearce wrote:
>
> I'm not quite with you here... You have a dual-boot machine, and want to
> use the cable modem with both OS's, am I right?
>
> All you need to do is use DHCP on both Linux and W98. You don't need VMware
> (but if you're using it, it gives the OS running under it DHCP anyway).
> All this assumes a standard ethernet cable modem, of course... NTL's
> Motorola modems bind to the MAC address of the ethernet card you use, and
> won't release it until their DHCP lease runs out (about 4 hours).
>
> Hope this helps a bit,
> Gordon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Thomas McLaughlin
> To: Scottish@Lists. Lug. Org. Uk
> Sent: 24 July 2001 15:32
> Subject: [scottish] vmware and cable modem
>
> Is it possible to use vmware for linux and windows and have both OS use a
> cable modem?
>
> I dual boot with Linux/win98 at home and while I use both, my wife uses
> win98 so I need both
> OS to access the internet.
>
> Would I have to issue a DHCP request when I require the guest OS to access
> the net or must I
> set up another linux box attached to the cable modem and set my pc up as a
> LAN host with linux and win98
> each having a dedicated IP address on the LAN?
>
> Tam McLaughlin
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