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by jcbrito_77

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I noticed that your are able to add a sencond IP, WINS, DNS, Gateway IP in Win XP. How dose it know which IP to use for the diferent netowrk that you are located in? Can some one could explain, Thx. for the help

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by timwalsh

Those settings are not for a different network (per-se). Those settings are only used if you are using DHCP and a DHCP server cannot be contacted (the idea being that you can hard code in DNS settings that you would normally get via DHCP).

by timwalsh

If you install 2 NIC cards , you will have TCP/IP settings (to include Alternate Configuration) for each card. Unless you have multiple physical connections, you will obviously only be able to connect to one network at a time.

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