From: "Geo." 

"Mike N."  wrote in message
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>   Windows has the same problem, but generally people don't see it because
> 98% run DHCP.   If you host multiple IP addresses on a single NIC, those
> IP
> addresses are bound to the NIC.  If the NIC fails, you're hosed - you have
> to type in those IP addresses again by hand unless you poke around the
> registry.

Not entirely true, you can use the same IP but you get a dumb warning that
the IP is assigned to another nic and that this may cause problems or
something like that.

Oh and I believe they moved the registry entry in Vista, instead of being
under tcp/ip now it's under networking.

Geo.

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