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Re: today's Q from the 'net-dunce :-)



Quoting Glenn Becker (glenn@icarus.usanetworks.com):

> Just wondering, if I have a multi-OS setup, does each system have to have
> its own IP #? Only one will ever be up and running at a time ...

One way of answering this is to consider that: systems don't have
IP numbers, interfaces do. So your multiple systems actually
present the same interface to the outside world when each
one is running.

Cheers,

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