Paul
Fri Apr 13 11:01:36 CDT 2007
It's a fun little bit of research...
Paul T.
"Tom" <kuhnto@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1176468858.694821.289560@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> On Apr 12, 12:40 pm, "Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <p space tobey no spam AT
> no instrument no spam DOT com> wrote:
>> I was just playing around with adding and removing extra IP addresses on
>> various adapters. I can't find any reason why it wouldn't work, *other*
>> than conflicting with the surrounding network's IP address range. If
>> your
>> radio can be set up to only expose the 10.x.x.x address on its *wired*
>> interface, that would, I think fix that problem, but I don't know if you
>> can
>> accomplish that.
>>
>> Paul T.
>>
>> "Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <p space tobey no spam AT no instrument no spam
>> DOT
>>
>> com> wrote in messagenews:esxigAHfHHA.2284@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> > You really don't want to direct your messages to specific people...
>>
>> > I guess that, if it works, it's all right, but it seems like you
>> > haven't
>> > really solved the problem. Let's say that the network on which you
>> > install this thing uses 10.x.x.x for PCs on the network (not an
>> > unreasonable possibility). You're sure to have an IP address conflict,
>> > I'd think, at some point, and a heck of a time fixing it, once you do.
>> > I
>> > can't think of a better way to achieve the result, though, since the
>> > radio
>> > apparently has to have an IP address (you could connect to it with
>> > serial
>> > or however you set the initial configuration and just use it as a
>> > bridge,
>> > if it didn't require itself to have an IP address).
>>
>> > Paul T.
>>
>> > "Tom" <kuh...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> >news:1176318301.103574.98400@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>> >>I was searching through some posts on using multiple IP addresses on a
>> >> single adapter, and I came upon a few responses from Paul Tobey. You
>> >> cracked me up. It is funny that you were starting to get a bunch of
>> >> these questions, and here I am with the same question. Well, I
>> >> already found out how to do it, but was wondering if you think my use
>> >> of two IP addresses is appropriate or not.
>>
>> >> I have a wince device with one network card. I have a switch. I have
>> >> a IP based radio in bridge mode between its wired and wireless
>> >> adapter. The CE device, Switch, and radio are all built into a single
>> >> case. The CE Device and radio BOTH have web servers to configure
>> >> their settings. The CE device and radio are both hooked to the
>> >> switch. In adding a bunch more of these to the network, we
>> >> effectively get a big network of Radios and CE devices. My idea is to
>> >> set the radios configuration IP to a fixed 10.x.x.x address, along
>> >> with one address of the CE device's adapter. The other CE devices IP
>> >> address will be whatever the user wants it as. By doing things this
>> >> way, the user will not be able to get to the radio web page (We want
>> >> to handle the configuration of the radio through our software), unless
>> >> he changes the ip of his web browsers machine. This also eases the
>> >> configuration difficulties of having to manage a network with both
>> >> radios and devices. Does anyone see a better way to do this?
>>
>> >> Thanks,
>>
>> >> Tom Kuhn
>
> Thanks Paul,
>
> The I can see the problems with conflicting IP addresses, but the IP
> address of the radio can be set to whatever we want. So if we ran
> into the problem of having a conflict we could just modify the radio
> and device IP's to reduce the conflict. I love the serial idea, but
> the unfortunatly I do not think it supports it.
>
> Thanks for helping out!
>
> Tom Kuhn
>