Prolly a silly question, but...

[Alan Garrison]

With the NIC problem I've been having, I was trying to 
come up with an alternate solution (short of replacing 
the $25 Tulip-based card with a $75 3com).  I assume 
I can do the following:  Get an older ISA 10Mb NIC, 
pop it in, load the module for it, assign it a different 
IP, and plug that into my hub along with the other 
systems.  My hub is 10/100.

Can I give the new NIC a separate name in the DNS table, 
and treat it as if it were just another machine on the 
network (even though it is the same one)?  For example, 
my "oops"'ing NIC is attached to the server, hostname "fiona" 
(172.16.12.1).  If I pop in the ISA NIC, give it some 
arbitrary, unused IP of 172.16.12.20, can I simply give 
another (different) DNS name to the .20 IP, like "fiona2"?
Also, from a workstation, can I "ftp fiona2" and still 
write files to the same server?  Or at least 
"ftp 172.16.12.20")?

(ack!  I think I'm confusing myself here...)