Prolly a silly question, but...

[Adam]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Alan Garrison wrote:

>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 

Gack!  $35 Intel Inbusiness adaptor is what I'd suggest :) (not the
digital chips manuf'ed by Intel either)


>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...)
>
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